Society and the World

Marcela loved me during fifteen months and three thousand dollars; nothing more.

Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to Socialism or regression into Barbarism.

Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to Socialism or regression into Barbarism.

A minimum of comfort is necessary for the practice of virtue.

History will one day have its say, but it will not be the history that Brussels, Paris, Washington, or the United Nations will teach, but that which they will teach in the countries emancipated from colonialism and its puppets. Africa will write its own history, and it will be, to the north and to the south of the Sahara, a history of glory and dignity.

History will one day have its say, but it will not be the history that Brussels, Paris, Washington, or the United Nations will teach, but that which they will teach in the countries emancipated from colonialism and its puppets. Africa will write its own history, and it will be, to the north and to the south of the Sahara, a history of glory and dignity.

Whenever a Republican leaves one side of the aisle and goes to the other [Democratic side], it raises the intelligence quotient of both parties.

All history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!

All history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!

The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks.

It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does.

Nothing happens until something moves.

Photons have mass? I didn’t even know they were Catholic.

Nothing is accidental in the universe -- this is one of my Laws of Physics -- except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.

If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false.

I'm not smart enough to lie.

A half-truth is the worst of all lies, because it can be defended in partiality.