That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.

The teleology of the Universe is directed to the production of Beauty... The type of Truth required for the final stretch of Beauty is a discovery and not a recapitulation... Apart from Beauty, Truth is neither good, nor bad... Truth matters because of beauty.

Nature, even in the act of satisfying anticipation, often provides a surprise.

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.

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.

A Unitarian is a person who believes in at most one God.