Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

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

Mathematics as a science, commenced when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions about "any" things or about "some" things, without specifications of definite particular things.

Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information. The second-handedness of the learned world is the secret of its mediocrity.

There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel.