The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.