The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know.

I am allowed to use plain English because everybody knows that I could use mathematical logic if I chose.

Religion may in most of its forms be defined as the belief that the gods are on the side of the government.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.

Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know.

The happy life is to an extraordinary extent the same as the good life.