The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.

Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.

Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science.

The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operations of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish. It is in a way the most civilised of all the cardinals, and its use is only forced on us by the needs of cultivated modes of thought.

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

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

What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.