In a certain sense, everything is everywhere at all times. For every location involves an aspect of itself in every other location. Thus every spatio-temporal standpoint mirrors the world

The preternatural solemnity of a good many of the professionally religious is to me a point against them.

Through and through the world is infested with quantity: To talk sense is to talk quantities. It is no use saying the nation is large. . . . How large? It is no use saying the radium is scarce. . . . How scarce? You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.

It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence.

Science repudiates philosophy. In other words, it has never cared to justify its truth or explain its meaning.

Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.