Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.

I should never have made a good scientist, but I should have made a perfectly adequate one.

There is, of course, no complete solution. But we can do something. The chief means open to us is education There is no excuse for letting another generation be as vastly ignorant, or as devoid of understanding and sympathy, as we are ourselves.

Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.

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

What we need to do is to humanize the scientist and simonize the humanist.

Well, we have seen a wonder. We ought to count our blessings.