The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'.
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.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.