The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

The concept of law is not a concept of a thing, but of a complex social practice.

Einstein was wrong when he said, 'God does not play dice'. Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

The sun is the soul of the universe, and the earth is its body.