Occupation: Chemist Birth: July 31, 1919 Death: April 11, 1987
It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end..
Even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and that to survive we must force our….
In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is….
Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or noble and admirable. For people of s….
But many, many stories were told; from what could be gathered, all fifty of the mine's inhabitants had reacted on each other, two by two, as in combi….
I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnat….
The living are more demanding; the dead can wait..
For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery flashes, lik….
In history and in life one sometimes seems to glimpse a ferocious law which states: to he that has, will be given; from he that has not, will be take….
Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his habits, his clothes, in short, of everything he posses….
The aims of life are the best defense against death..
The sea's only gifts are harsh blows and, occasionally, the chance to feel strong..
We will not return No one must leave here and so carry to the world, together with the sign impressed on his skin, the evil tidings of what man's pre….
The trade of chemist (fortified, in my case, by the experience of Auschwitz), teaches you to overcome, indeed to ignore, certain revulsions that are ….
This cell belongs to a brain, and it is my brain, the brain of me who is writing; and the cell in question, and within it the atom in question, is in….
Our ignorance allowed us to live, as you are in the mountains, and your rope is frayed and about to break, but you don't know it and feel safe..
I have many times been praised for my lack of animosity towards the Germans. It's not a philosophical virtue. It's a habit of having my second reacti….
Each of us bears the imprint of a friend met along the way; In each the trace of each..
To destroy a man is difficult, almost as difficult as to create one: it has not been easy, nor quick, but you Germans have succeeded. Here we are, do….
To give a name to a thing is as gratifying as giving a name to an island, but it is also dangerous: the danger consists in one's becoming convinced t….
There are few men who know how to go to their deaths with dignity, and often they are not those whom one would expect..