Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism.

Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand.

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.

Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and they would be kindly in any case.

Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people… As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected.

One of the most painful circumstances of recent advances in science is that each one makes us know less than we thought we did

Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West, results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness.