The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.

The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.

A man of science doesn't discover in order to know, he wants to know in order to discover.

Governments are best classified by considering who are the 'somebodies' they are in fact endeavouring to satisfy.

Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God.

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment.

Many a scientist has patiently designed experiments for the purpose of substantiating his belief that animal operations are motivated by no purposes. He has perhaps spent his spare time in writing articles to prove that human beings are as other animals so that 'purpose' is a category irrelevant for the explanation of their bodily activities, his own activities included. Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study.