It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part of daily thought, and brought again and again before the mind with ever-renewed encouragement.

All serious innovation is only rendered possible by some accident enabling unpopular persons to survive.

No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country; how can anyone require the people of Palestine to accept a punishment which nobody else would tolerate?

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

Thomas Aquinas states parenthetically, as something entirely obvious, that men are more rational than women. For my part, I see no evidence of this.