“I do not believe that a dream should necessarily be taken for reality, or reality for madness.”

“The influence of the future on the past," said Morel enthusiastically, almost inaudibly.”

“I thought I had made this discovery: that there are unexpected, constant repetitions in our behavior. The right combination of circumstances had enabled me to observe them. One seldom has the chanc...”

“...when one is alone it is impossible to be dead.”

“I dreaded an invasion of ghosts or, less likely, an invasion of the police.”

“what if you've been born more intelligent than others? and you can't force them to understand you, but you can understand them?. then you just need to force yourself on them, and you can map out th...”

“Truth can be stated simply, but cannot be understood as such.”

“Paradoxes are less paradoxical in their reference to truth than most of the most plausible axioms.”

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettie...”

“To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. ”

“The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.”