For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
After the planet becomes theirs, many millions of years will have to pass before a beetle particularly loved by God, at the… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“Chemistry, for me, had stopped being such a source. It led to the heart of Matter, and Matter was our ally precisely… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
A scientist's life, the author says, is indeed conflictual, formed by battles, defeats, and victories: but the adversary is always and only… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“For good or evil, we are a single people: the more we become conscious of this, the less difficult and long will… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“That the nobility of Man, acquired in a hundred centuries of trial and error, lay in making himself the conquerer of matter,… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“There are people who wring their hands and call it an abyss, but do nothing to fill it; there are also those… — primo levi Copy Share Image
The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
I too entered the Lager as a nonbeliever, and as a nonbeliever I was liberated and have lived to this day. — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Man is a centaur, a tangle of flesh and mind, divine inspiration and dust. — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Our ignorance allowed us to live, as you are in the mountains, and your rope is frayed and about to break, but you don't… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“Válka, to je hlavně velký zmatek, na poli i v lidských hlavách: často člověk ani nechápe, kdo vlastně vítězí a kdo prohrává, o tom… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“An extreme case of the distortion of the memory of a committed guilty act is found in its suppression. Here, too, the borderline between… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“It was the shame we knew so well, the shame that drowned us after the selections, and every time we had to watch, or… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“Willingly or not we come to terms with power, forgetting that we are all in the ghetto, that the ghetto is walled in, that… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Nothing can be said: nothing sure, nothing probable, nothing honest. Better to err through omission than through commission: better to refrain from steering the… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“We were also born," Line said abruptly. Mendel questioned her with a look, and Line tried to clarify her thought: "Born, expelled. Russia conceived… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“They are the typical product of the structure of the German Lager: if one offers a position of privilege to a few individuals in… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need. — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
