Quotes by Levi, Primo

The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous count >>

For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialit >>

Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories wh >>

Quotations about Insects

Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not w >>

The mortal enemies of man are not his fellows of another continent or >>

His Labor is a Chant -- his Idleness -- a Tune -- oh, for a Bee's expe >>

The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did not fly, or if they flew straight and briskly like bees, or if they stung, or above all if they did not enact the perturbing mystery of metamorphosis: the latter assumes in our eyes the value of a badly decoded message, a symbol, a sign.

Levi, Primo