The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear.

If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.

If two hitherto rival football teams, under the influence of brotherly love, decided to co-operate in placing the football first beyond one goal and then beyond the other, no one's happiness would be increased

A million million years gives us some time to prepare for the end . . . let us make the best of it.

A smell of petroleum prevails throughout.