It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character.

But love brings much happiness - much more so than pining brings pain.

It is true that the grasping of truth is not possible without empirical basis. However, the deeper we penetrate and the more extensive and embracing our theories become the less empirical knowledge is needed to determine those theories.

Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.

Science is the process of making obviously erroneous ideas less obviously erroneous.

How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.

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