You think the world is what it looks like in fine weather at noon day; I think it is what it seems like in the early morning when one first wakes from deep sleep.

The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.

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

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operations of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish. It is in a way the most civilised of all the cardinals, and its use is only forced on us by the needs of cultivated modes of thought.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Great art is more than a transient refreshment. It is something which adds to the permanent richness of the soul's self-attainment. It justifies itself both by its immediate enjoyment, and also by its discipline of the inmost being. Its discipline is not distinct from enjoyment but by reason of it. It transforms the soul into the permanent realization of values extending beyond its former self.