It is not my prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature has made them.

We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.

Animal rights, taken to their logical conclusion, mean votes for oysters.

In human relations one should penetrate to the core of loneliness in each person and speak to that.

A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.

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.