Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition.

In the daily lives of most men and women, fear plays a greater part than hope: they are more filled with the thought of the possessions that others may take from them, than of the joy that they might create in their own lives and in the lives with which they come in contact. It is not so that life should be lived.

Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.

Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may show us that some ends cannot be achieved.

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

Love is a slippery eel that bites like hell