Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

But I simply can't stand a view limited to this earth, I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds...I like mathematics largely because it is not human.

In any closet, you can find it, if it is too small, or out of style, or there is just one of it where there should be two

Well, there are many religions, but I suppose they all worship the same God.

It is only theory that makes men completely incautious.

Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy.

Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.