The future is an unknown, but a somewhat predictable unknown. To look to the future we must first look back upon the past. That is where the seeds of the future were planted. I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

I like the Swiss because by and large they are more humane than the other people aming whom I have lived.

Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled.

There are actually two approaches to reside your daily life. One is as if absolutely nothing is really a miracle. The other is as if every little thing is a wonder

Those people have seen 'something'. What it is I do not know and I can not care to know.

From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.