There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science. – Anton Chekhov
We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well. – Anton Chekhov

There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science. – Anton Chekhov
We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well. – Anton Chekhov
In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with humans it is the other way around: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar. – Anton Chekhov
No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith. – Anton Chekhov