The whiter my hair becomes, the more ready people are to believe what I say.

Even if it is indifferent to human desires, as it seems to be; if human life is a passing episode, hardly noticeable in the vastness of cosmic processes; if there is no superhuman purpose, and no hope of ultimate salvation, it is better to know and acknowledge this truth than to endeavor, in futile self-assertion, to order the universe to be what we find comfortable.

[There has been] every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.

I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds.

The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more amazing becomes what human beings have achieved.

Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence of matter is capable of being denied without absurdity.

Animal rights, taken to their logical conclusion, mean votes for oysters.