"Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing."

"The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification."

"The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability."

"The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth."

"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."

"A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin what else does a man need to be happy?"

"Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity."

"The foundation of joy is every failure is just a stepping stone to greatness."