Science does not aim at establishing immutable truths and eternal dogmas; its aim is to approach the truth by successive approximations, without claiming that at any stage final and complete accuracy has been achieved.

Look at me. Look at me is one of the fundamental desires of human heart.

Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.

Fundamental happiness depends more than anything else upon what may be called a friendly interest in persons and things.

My own view on religion is . . . It helped in early days to fix the calendar, and . . . to chronicle eclipses . . . These two services I am prepared to acknowledge.

For my part, the thing I would wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. But what the typical modern man desires to get with it is more money, with a view to ostentation, splendour, and the outshining of those who have hitherto been his equals.

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