Science seems to be at war with itself.... Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive realism, if true, is false; therefore it is false.

Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far back as we know anything of man

The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition. The experimental habit of mind is a difficult one for most people to maintain; indeed, the science of one generation has already become the tradition of the next

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

All great books contain boring portions, and all great lives have contained uninteresting stretches.

We need a science to save us from science.

I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious.