“By convention sweet and by convention bitter, by convention hot, by convention cold, by convention color; but in reality atoms and void.”

“Many much-learned men have no intelligence.”

“No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.”

“Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.”

“To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.”

“If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.”

“I have little use for religion as it is practiced, or for astrology, or for belief in witchcraft or omens of good or ill-luck. I think they all stem from some insufficiency in mens minds, perhaps f...”

“It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.”

“So if you can look at all things without allowing pleasure to creep in - at a face, a bird, the colour of a sari, the beauty of a sheet of water shimmering in the sun, or anything that gives deligh...”

“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.”