A nation is the same people living in the same place.
Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.
[Intellectual courage is] the quality that allows one to believe in one's judgement in the face of disappointment and widespread skepticism. Intellectual courage is even rarer than physical courage.
Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality.
Idealism is the highest form of reason.
In education the appetite does indeed grow with eating. I have never known anyone to abandon study because they knew too much.
Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.
Bien predica quien bien vive. He who lives well is the best preacher.
Letting ourselves be loved by God is more important than loving God.
In the process of planning and having a wedding, I forgot there would actually be a marriage, a union of minds, bodies, souls, and issues that would come together as soon as the ceremony was over.
Being angry is human. Staying angry is foolish.