What's the difference between a bright, inquisitive five-year-old, and a dull, stupid nineteen-year-old? Fourteen years of the British educational system.

Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.

Fervent religious believers sacrifice pleasures of the body, but instead enjoy pleasures of the mind, including the joy of knowing that those men who didn't follow their religion would be tortured for eternity.

There seems scarcely any limit to what could be done in the way of producing a good world, if only men would use science wisely.

The world in which we live can be understood as a result of muddle and accident; but if it is the outcome of deliberate purpose, the purpose must have been that of a fiend. For my part, I find accident a less painful and more plausible hypothesis.

The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.