Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

What we cannot think we cannot think, therefore we also cannot say what we cannot think.

I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of WORK, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in the organised diminution of work.

The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself.

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

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

The world that we must seek is a world in which the creative spirit is alive, in which life is an adventure full of joy and hope, based rather upon the impulse to construct than upon the desire to retain what we possess or to seize what is possessed by others.