Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality.

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

In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles.

I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike than theology.

There will be some fundamental assumptions which adherents of all the variant systems within the epoch unconsciously presuppose. Such assumptions appear so obvious that people do not know what they are assuming because no other way of putting things has ever occurred to them. With these assumptions a certain limited number of types of philosophic systems are possible, and this group of systems constitutes the philosophy of the epoch.

The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.