I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.
“Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.”
“By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.”