The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes.

The charms of money are distinctly under-represented in literature. There are no songs or poems extolling its virtues. This seems on the face of it strange. The claims of money to be celebrated in verse might well seem to be no less than those of faithful dogs, beautiful women, or jugs of wine.

It is curious that while one's education is the part of one's life over the conditions of which one has least individual control, the results of it are held to brand one irrevocably.

The chief difficulty of modern theoretical physics resides not in the fact that it expresses itself almost exclusively in mathematical symbols, but in the psychological difficulty of supposing that complete nonsense can be seriously promulgated and transmitted by persons who have sufficient intelligence of some kind to perform operations in differential and integral calculus.

In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy, a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one has his way.

One of the greatest superstitions of our time is the belief that it has none.

The human race's favorite method for being in control of facts is to ignore them.