From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.

There is a technique, a knack, for thinking, just as there is for doing other things. You are not wholly at the mercy of your thoughts, any more than they are you. They are a machine you can learn to operate.

A Unitarian is a person who believes in at most one God.

The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be ``Seek simplicity and distrust it.''

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

As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.

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