If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.

The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

The theoretical idea ... does not arise apart from and independent of experience; nor can it be derived from experience by a purely logical procedure. It is produced by a creative act. Once a theoretical idea has been acquired, one does well to hold fast to it until it leads to an untenable conclusion.

It's not that life has been easy, perfect or exactly as expected. I just choose to be happy and grateful no matter how it all turns out. If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Live with purpose. Don't let people or things around you get you down.

It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever this religious stock of ideas contains dogmatically fixed statements on subjects which belong in the domain of science.