Remorse.– Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance

We have the same job we’ve always had, to say that there are no final solutions, there is no absolute truth, there is no supreme leader, there is no totalitarian solution that says if you will just give up your freedom of inquiry, if you will simply abandon your critical faculties, a world of idiotic bliss can be yours.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.

Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth; and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not