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To be a standard shape is not all in life. To know is also important.

It [i.e., his look] held the fatal mixture of stupidity and cunning that lurks at the bottom of all evil.

Relax, enjoy yourself. Have another drink. It’s patriotic to overconsume.

The best military historians in fact do recognize the difficulty in stating rules of generalship. They do not speak of a science of war, but rather of a pattern of military behavior that cannot be taught or stated precisely but that somehow or other sometimes helps in winning battles. This is called the art of war. In the same spirit I think that one should not hope for a science of science, the formulation of any definite rules about how scientists do or ought to behave, but only aim at a description of the sort of behavior that historically has led to scientific progress—an art of science.

It’s a national failing to think of politics as something that goes on in Parliament. It isn’t; it’s something that goes on inside us.

What were several fewer species of animals compared with a hundred-mile advance and another medal on another general?

I’ve no objection to morality, except that it’s obsolete.

Man was an accident on this world or it would have been made better for him!

It is with Isaac Newton that the modern dream of a final theory really begins.

To see the gods dispelled in mid-air and dissolve like clouds is one of the great human experiences. It is not as if they had gone over the horizon to disappear for a time; nor as if they had been overcome by other gods of greater power and profounder knowledge. It is simply that they came to nothing.

To have nothing to say and to say it in a tragic manner is not the same thing as having something to say.

A poem should be a part of one's sense of life.