Supongo que no hay manera de hacer regresar la nube con forma de hongo a esa bonita y reluciente esfera de uranio.
We face eternity now. We have no universe left, no outside phenomena, no emotions, no passions. Nothing but ourselves and thought. We face an eternity of introspection, when all through history we have never known what to do with ourselves on a rainy Sunday.
Often, this has only meant a change in tyranny. In other words, one ruling class is replaced by another – sometimes by one that is more efficient and therefore still more capable of maintaining itself – while the poor and downtrodden remain poor and downtrodden or become even worse off.
Historians pick and choose and every one of them picks and chooses the same thing.
Yet because they did not know one another, and could not understand one another, and dared not trust one another, and felt from infancy the terrors and insecurity of that ultimate isolation – there was the hunted fear of man for man, the savage rapacity of man toward man.
I grow grandiose, which is a good sign I should become prosaic.
You’re surrounded by people in the waking period, and you feel their eyes and their hopes on you. You can’t stand up under it. In the sleep period, you’re free.
However, I continue to try and I continue, indefatigably, to reach out. There’s no way I can single-handedly save the world or, perhaps, even make a perceptible difference – but how ashamed I would be to let a day pass without making one more effort.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
Having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.
You don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware he is wise.
All evil is good become cancerous.
The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
There is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.
There’s so much knowledge to be had that specialists cling to their specialties as a shield against having to know anything about anything else. They avoid being drowned.
The spell of power never quite releases its hold.