The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth while. Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications. All strong interests easily become impersonal, the love of a good job well done. There is a sense of harmony about such an accomplishment, the Peace brought by something worth while. Such personal gratification arises from aim beyond personality.

It is the business of future to be dangerous.... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.

God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine, of God, and that participation is his immortality.