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I believe that the job of the novelist is to go out into the world and to bring back news of the human condition.
The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more astonishing becomes what human beings have achieved.
The highest task of education is to develop in the individual a sense of responsibility towards humanity.
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
The history of men is the history of their crimes.
"Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow."
Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.
"The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel."
"Science is not just a collection of facts; it's a way of thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility."
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
The pursuit of science is not a luxury but a necessity for the survival of mankind.