Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.