Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic.

True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost.

There have been poverty, pestilence, and famine, which were due to man's inadequate mastery of nature. There have been wars, oppressions and tortures which have been due to men's hostility to their fellow men.

The Church no longer contends that knowledge is in itself sinful, though it did so in its palmy days; but the acquisition of knowledge, even though not sinful, is dangerous, since it may lead to pride of intellect, and hence to a questioning of the Christian dogma.

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.