The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance

I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.

The Bible is a great source of wisdom and consolation and should be read frequently.

Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher.

The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images.