We can't afford the wrath of Heaven. We survived a deluge by the skin of our teeth, but an economic crisis would be disastrous.

A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.

For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence.

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

Humor is the mask of wisdom.

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand

News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.

The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.

Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.

Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.

It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.

Concrete breathes sun's heat.

What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.

I sincerely want peace, not because I lack resources for war, but because I hate bloodshed.

I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.

Humanity is facing a challenge unlike any we've ever had to confront. We are in an unprecedented period of change.

Truth is to be sought with a mind purified from the passions of the body. Having overcome evil things, thou shalt experience the union of the union mortal divinity with the mortal man.

Aaron Burr was like a new refrigerator. He was bright, cold and empty.

A typical software project can present more opportunities to learn from mistakes than some people get in a lifetime.

The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.

Life is a menu. Whatever you order is what's delivered to the table.