I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

Americans need rest, but do not know it. I believe this to be a large part of the explanation of the crime wave in the United States.

Most human beings, though in varying degrees, desire to control, not only their own lives but also the lives of others

In astronomy, the law of gravitation is plainly better worth knowing than the position of a particular planet on a particular night, or even on every night throughout a year. There are in the law a splendour and simplicity and sense of mastery which illuminate a mass of otherwise uninteresting details. But in history the matter is far otherwise. Historical facts, many of them, have an intrinsic value, a profound interest on their own account, which makes them worthy of study, quite apart from any possibility of linking them together by means of causal laws.

To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.

Sir Arthur Eddington deduces religion from the fact that atoms do not obey the laws of mathematics. Sir James Jeans deduces it from the fact that they do.

The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.