Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those that merely resolve puzzlement.

A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.

A child who has been severely punished for sex play is not necessarily less inclined to continue; and a man who has been imprisoned for violent assault is not necessarily less inclined toward violence.

When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.

Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a person we cannot see, whose behavior we cannot explain either but about whom we are not inclined to ask questions.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive.