How about Pithecanthropus Erectus? Was it really he who ate the apple? Or was it Homo Pekiniensis?

Truth is for the gods; from our human point of view, it is an ideal, towards which we can approximate, but which we cannot hope to reach.

If everything has a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just be the world as God.

My sad conviction is that people can only agree about what they're not really interested in.

I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me that it is a rare exception. I had supposed that most people liked money better than almost anything else, but I discovered that they liked destruction even better. I had supposed that intellectuals frequently loved truth, but I found here again that not ten per cent of them prefer truth to popularity.

The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.

What science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.