What used to be an advantage had quickly turned into a liability, proving once more that in the mountains, as in life, nothing comes easily. - Dmitri Bilenkin

What is the aim of science?
"What?"
"Man's happiness. If science doesn't make men happier, what good is it? Knowledge is power, a weapon, and if the scientist doesn't care where it's aimed, what makes him different from a mercenary soldier?"

There are no uninteresting fates, and each man takes away the universe when he dies.

When the mind tries to guess the trajectory of a future moral act and concentrates too strenuously on contradictory concepts, the concepts themselves become unclear, because every concept is as deep-rooted and murky in its beginnings as the reality of life that gave rise to it. And the mind falters, determination slips away, and everything seems confused and wrong. That’s how thinking can sometimes destroy determination.