What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.

Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.

One feels the insignificance of the individual, and it makes one happy.

Nonsense, seems to sum up everything.

We have to do the best we are capable of. This is our sacred human responsibility.

Economists and workplace consultants regard it as almost unquestioned dogma that people are motivated by rewards, so they don't feel the need to test this. It has the status more of religious truth than scientific hypothesis. The facts are absolutely clear. There is no question that in virtually all circumstances in which people are doing things in order to get rewards, extrinsic tangible rewards undermine intrinsic motivation.The bonus myth: How paying for results can backfire The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

It would seem that men always need some idiotic fiction in the name of which they can hate one another. Once it was religion. Now it is the State.