Young people wonder how the adult world can be so boring. The secret is that it is not boring to adults because they have learnt to enjoy simple thin….

The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes..

The charms of money are distinctly under-represented in literature. There are no songs or poems extolling its virtues. This seems on the face of it s….

That society exists to frustrate the individual may be seen from its attitude to work. It is only morally acceptable if you do not want to do it. If ….

Only the impossible is worth attempting. In everything else one is sure to fail..

People accept their limitations so as to prevent themselves from wanting anything they might get..

People have been marrying and bringing up children for centuries now. Nothing has ever come of it..

People having religions is an insult to the universe..

One of the greatest superstitions of our time is the belief that it has none..

The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations..

It is inconceivable that anything should be existing. It is not inconceivable that a lot of people should also be existing who are not interested in ….

The chief difficulty of modern theoretical physics resides not in the fact that it expresses itself almost exclusively in mathematical symbols, but i….

In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy, a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one has his way..

The human race's favorite method for being in control of facts is to ignore them..

If you stand up to the human race you lose something called their 'goodwill'; if you kowtow to them you gain ... their permission to continue kowtowi….

Physics has never been a comfortable subject for human psychology. The desire to regard everything outside the human race's purview as insignificant,….

Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved or….

Research is a way of taking calculated risks to bring about incalculable consequences..

Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the ….

I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say..

Lack of clarity is always a sign of dishonesty..