European travellers find the Japanese a smiling race.

Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire.

Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.

For some reason which I have failed to understand, many people like the system [scientific totalitarianism] when it is Russian but disliked the very same system when it was German. I am compelled to think that this is due to the power of labels; these people like whatever is labelled ‘Left’ without examining whether the label has any justification.

Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

Broadly speaking, we are in the middle of a race between human skill as a means and human folly as an end.