War can protect; it cannot create.

The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of learning.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.

Routine is the god of every social system; it is the seventh heaven of business, the essential component in the success of every factory, the ideal of every statesman. The social machine should run like clockwork.

It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence.

I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.