All Quotes

Chess is not for timid souls. ”

I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings. ”

A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror. ”

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena. ”

The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest. ”

Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness. ”

Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it. ”

Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life's pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation. ”

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary. ”

The individual organs follow the same pattern as the whole organism, i.e. they have their period of growth, of stationary, maximum activity and then of aging decline. ”