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….

I am constantly amazed by man's inhumanity to man..

Man is a centaur, a tangle of flesh and mind, divine inspiration and dust..

Conquering matter is to understand it, and understanding matter is necessary to understanding the universe and ourselves: and that therefore Mendelee….

After the planet becomes theirs, many millions of years will have to pass before a beetle particularly loved by God, at the end of its calculations w….

Monsters exist, but they are too few in numbers to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are…the functionaries ready to believe and act without asking q….

It is this refrain that we hear repeated by everyone: you are not at home, this is not a sanatorium, the only exit is by way of the Chimney. (What di….

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….

I beg the reader not to go in search of messages. It is a term that I detest because it distresses me greatly, for it forces on me clothes that are n….

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….

Did chemistry theorems exist? No: therefore you had to go further, not be satisfied with the quia, go back to the origins, to mathematics and physics….

The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is bein….

I am not even alive enough to know how to kill myself.

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….

A man who would mutilate himself is well damned, isn't he?.

This is the most immediate fruit of exile, of uprooting: the prevalence of the unreal over the real. Everyone dreamed past and future dreams, of slav….

Perhaps Kafka laughed when he told stories [. . . ] because one isn't always equal to oneself..

It is neither easy nor agreeable to dredge this abyss of viciousness, and yet I think it must be done, because what could be perpetrated yesterday co….

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..

An enemy who sees the error of his ways ceases to be an enemy..

For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery flashes, lik….