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

There is exactly the same degree of possibility and likelihood of the existence of the Christian God as there is of the existence of the Homeric god. I cannot prove that either the Christian god or the Homeric gods do not exist, but I do not think that their existence is an alternative that is sufficiently probable to be worth serious consideration.

It's not what you have lost, but what you have left that counts.

Africans had to be taught that nudity is wicked; this was done very cheaply by missionaries.

Your writing is never as good as you hoped; but never as bad as you feared.

Analytic It is clear that the definition of "logic" or "mathematics" must be sought by trying to give a new definition of the old notion of "analytic" propositions.

Man can be stimulated by hope or driven by fear, but the hope and the fear must be vivid and immediate if they are to be effective without producing weariness.