Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

There is no nature at an instant.

The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it.

We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race.

Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet.

If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

In a certain sense, everything is everywhere at all times. For every location involves an aspect of itself in every other location. Thus every spatio-temporal standpoint mirrors the world