"There's nothing more exciting than science. You get all the fun of sitting still, being quiet, writing down numbers, paying attention. Science has it all."

"A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission."

"L'etat c'est moi (I am the State)"

"'It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,' he used to say. 'You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to."

"Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them."

"Gifts allow us to demonstrate exactly how little we know about a person. And nothing pisses a person off more than being shoved into the wrong pigeonhole."

"The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error."

"I think that the Communist Party as a political organization is of no danger to the United States. It has no following and has been disregarded by the American people for many, many years."

"The love of onea€?s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?"

"The most dangerous folly of old people who were once attractive is to forget that they are not so any longer."

"Merrily, merrily shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough."

"The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated."