Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive to many things of great importance.

I read Zuleika Dobson with pleasure. It represents the Oxford that the two World Wars have destroyed with a charm that is not likely to be reproduced anywhere in the world for the next thousand years.

The military superiority of Europe to Asia is not an eternal law of nature, as we are tempted to think, and our superiority in civilization is a mere delusion.

Writing can be either readable or precise, but not at the same time.

Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale

Man can be scientifically manipulated.

Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.