It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.

Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

To be adult is to be alone.