Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth

If the West can claim superiority in anything, it is . . . in science and scientific technique.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

When the journey from means to end is not too long, the means themselves are enjoyed if the end is ardently desired.

The Mormons had a divine revelation in favour of polygamy, but under pressure from the United States Government they discovered that the revelation was not binding.

Insight, untested and unsupported, is an uncertain guarantee of the truth.

In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.