Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
The obligation to endure gives us the right to know.
A body of work such as Pasteur’s is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.
To be adult is to be alone (etre adulte c’est etre seul).
My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood – we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife she has thought much worse things about you.
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.