There is nothing more marvelous or madder than real life.

How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.

Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

Knowing without seeing is at the heart of chemistry.

Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.

It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.

Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles in these circles.

From a chemist's point of view, the surface or interior of a star…is boring—there are no molecules there.

It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.

I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly.

I came to a happy Jewish family in dark days in Europe.

Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate. Get the rich, the greedy, the criminals, the stupid leader and so on ad nauseam.

God’s grace gives you strength to overcome any situation.

Animals are good human beings and human beings are bad animals

The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.

Now Congress learns that the Veterans Administration failed to provide complete, accurate information on the money it needs for both this year and next year.

There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.

Okay, okay, okay. I understood that pushing the elevator button over and over again would not make the elevator appear sooner. But I couldn't help myself

The window was still open.” Mr Lisbon said. “I don’t think we’d ever remembered to shut it. It was all clear to me. I knew I had to close it or else she’d go on jumping out of it forever

The man who has the sense of the body being himself cannot possibly worship God as formless; whatever worship he makes will be worship in form alone, not otherwise.