As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because I do not think that there is a conclusive argument by which one can prove that there is not a God. On the other hand, if I am to convey the right impression to the ordinary man in the street I think that I ought to say that I am an Atheist, because, when I say that I cannot prove that there is not a God, I ought to add equally that I cannot prove that there are not the Homeric gods.

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

Measures of sterilization should, in my opinion, be very definitely confined to persons who are mentally defective

It is not known why the Lord made the human body as he did, since one might suppose that omnipotence could have made it such as would not have shocked the nice people.

I do so hate to leave this world.

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

When we have told how things behave when they are electrified, and under what circumstances they are electrified, we have told all there is to know