Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting to be realised; something which is a remote possibility, and yet the greatest of present facts; something that gives meaning to all that passes, and yet eludes apprehension; something whose possession is the final good, and yet is beyond all reach; something which is the ultimate ideal, and the hopeless quest.

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

The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.

All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.

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

It is the business of the future to be dangerous.

The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame.