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.

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

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

It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.

The whole of mathematics consists in the organization of a series of aids to the imagination in the process of reasoning.

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure, Art, Peace.