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

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

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

The scientific process has two motives: one is to understand the natural world, the other is to control it.

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.

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

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.