Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
Kill one man and you are a murderer. Kill millions and you are a conqueror. Kill all and you are a God.
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
Theories pass. The frog remains.
Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
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.
Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.
Kill a man and you're a murderer. Kill many and you're a conqueror. Kill them all, you're a god.
The obligation to endure gives us the right to know.
Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.
Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.
Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.
Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god. Thoughts of a Biologist
In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.
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.
Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.
It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.
