Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.

Mathematics is only the art of saying the same thing in different words.

When we have told how things behave when they are electrified, and under what circumstances they are electrified, we have told all there is to know

Affection cannot be created; it can only be liberated.

I am aware that many divines are far more marvelous than I am, and that I cannot wholly appreciate merits so far transcending my own. Nevertheless, even after making allowances under this head, I cannot but think that Omnipotence operating through all eternity might have produced something better.

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer

This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.