Skip to content “That's my private ant. You're liable to break its legs.”
“In case my life should end with the cannibals, I hope they will write on my tombstone, 'We have eaten Dr. Schweitzer. He was good to the end.'”
“I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult.”
"Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?"
"I have just got a new theory of eternity."
"I love to travel, but hate to arrive."
"The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat."
"I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion."
"You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one."
"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."
