A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.

No science can be more secure than the unconscious metaphysics which tacitly it presupposes.

The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed.

The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish.

People make the mistake of talking about 'natural laws.' There are no natural laws. There are only temporary habits of nature.

Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind; it is also the most useful. It pervades the whole being.

I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.