My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. |
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. |
Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse. |
Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms |
Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms |
Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it |
Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it |
Never lose a holy curiosity. |
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs. |
Newton, forgive me. |
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. |
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. |
No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? |
Nor do I take into account a danger of starting a chain reaction of a scope great enough to destroy part or all of the planet. But it is not necessary to imagine the earth being destroyed like a nova by a stellar explosion to understand vividly the g |
Not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. |