We need a science to save us from science.

In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.

The road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organized diminution of work.

Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life.

I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion has anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds.

When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.

The Church no longer contends that knowledge is in itself sinful, though it did so in its palmy days; but the acquisition of knowledge, even though not sinful, is dangerous, since it may lead to pride of intellect, and hence to a questioning of the Christian dogma.