If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.

The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends whic…

Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between…

Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.

I identified with both women. But Emma had a stronger message for the women I want to speak to now- women who work. I wanted to tell them that choosing to work…

People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a…

Neither of us ever actually held a job in our lives.