The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
Knowledge cannot be pursued without morality.
Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.