Quotes About Author

What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.

The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.

I was very pleased with your kind letter. Until now I never dreamed of being something like a hero. But since you've given me the nomination I feel that I am one.

A conviction akin to religious feeling of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a high order.

with every action theres an equal opposite reaction. With every problem, there's a solution: just a matter of taking action.

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?

What separates me from most so-called atheists is a feeling of utter humility towards the unattainable secrets of the harmony of the cosmos.

production." Their difficulties were overcome only when it was successfully established that, for any given amount of heat produced by friction

The question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

Question: What is a scientific author? Answer: A cross between a mimosa and a porcupine.

I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.

Not until I came to Canada did I realize that snow was a four-letter word.

The readers who commited suicide after reading 'Werther' were not ideal but merely sentimental readers.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

Hitler's the supreme example of the delinquent Peter Pan. Stalin's the supreme example of the delinquent Muscle Man.

Cynical realism—it's the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation

The fine point of seldom pleasure has been blunted

Shearwater sighed, like a whale in the night.

Encendió un cigarrillo para desinfectar la memoria.

If ever I hear again of any lapse from a proper standard of infantile decorum, I shall ask for your transference to a Sub-Centre–preferably to Iceland. Good morning.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

And so they lived unhappily ever after'.

If you want to write, keep cats.

To change a vocabulary is easy; to change external circumstances or our own ingrained habits is hard and tiresome.