I should like to believe my people's religion, which was just what I could wish, but alas, it is impossible. I have really no religion, for my God, being a spirit shown merely by reason to exist, his properties utterly unknown, is no help to my life. I have nor the parson's comfortable doctrine that every good action has its reward, and every sin is forgiven. My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.

The discipline in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.

One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.

Analytic It is clear that the definition of "logic" or "mathematics" must be sought by trying to give a new definition of the old notion of "analytic" propositions.

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry.

Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover.

As men begin to grow civilized, they cease to be satisfied with mere taboos.