The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.

A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.

For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence.

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

Humor is the mask of wisdom.

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand

News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.

The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.

Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.

Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.

It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.

And there was that trick he did with time, making it speed up when we were together and drag til I saw him again.

God will use anybody that will show diligence in his work

Some minds are made of blotting-paper: you can write nothing on them distinctly. They swallow the ink, and you find a large spot.

I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.

The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don’t recognize as real.

The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.

I like politics. I like traveling in the United States.

Socrates, indeed, when he was asked of what country he called himself, said, "Of the world"; for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world.

When is the night over? Is it the start of sunrise or the end of it? Is it when you finally go to sleep or simply when you realize that you have to?

All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary.