My sad conviction is that people can only agree about what they're not really interested in.

The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from the straitwaistcoated benevolent institution, which idealism palms off as the totality of being.

There are certain things that our age needs. It needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

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

The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition.

Whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence warrants.