Two polar groups: at one pole we have the literary intellectuals, at the other scientists, and as the most representative, the physical scientists. Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension.

I was searching for something a little more than a dashing metaphor, a good deal less than a cultural map: and for those purposes the two cultures is about right.

Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the nineteenth century.

Nothing is easier to avoid than publicity. If one genuinely doesn't want it, one doesn't get it.

I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get along.

By the year 2070 we cannot say, or it would be imbecile to do so, that any man alive could understand Shakespearean experience better than Shakespeare, whereas any decent eighteen-year-old student of physics will know more physics than Newton.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.