Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

Well, it seems like a miracle to be able to look forward-to-to see all the minutes in front of one come hopping along with something marvellous in them, instead of just[Pg 295] saying, Well, that one didn't actually hurt and the next may be quite bearable if only something beastly doesn't come pouncing out--

The education that we have so far succeeded in giving to the bulk of our citizens has produced a generation of mental slatterns.

Even idiots ocasionally speak the truth accidentally.

The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false statements made in error, we open up the way for false statements by intention. And a false statement of fact, made deliberately, is the most serious crime a scientist can commit.

What? Sunday morning in an English family and no sausages? God bless my soul, what's the world coming to, eh?

God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators.