We can't allow science to undo its own good work.

It had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife. (Sebastian Barnack assessing a Roederer 1916 champagne in Time Must Have a Stop)

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons-that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.

Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!

Nothing — the only perfection, the only absolute. Infinite and eternal nothing.