Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married, or own a house as if life was some kind of grocery list. But no one ever asks you if you are happy.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.
If people are not laughing at you’re goal, then you’re goals are too small.
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery we are trying to solve.
You cannot conquer a free man. The most you can do is kill him.
Never memorize something that you can look up.
What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.