The world is full of burled and gnarly knobs on which you can hang a metaphysical system. If you must.

It may be true that there are no atheists in foxholes. But you don't find many Christians there, either. Or, about as many of one as the other.

Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.

The one great gift to humankind from our nuclear physicists has been the nuclear bomb. How can we ever thank them?

I wouldn't trade a good horse for the best Rolls-Royce ever made -- unless I could trade the Rolls for two good horses.

Romanticism was more than merely an alternative to a sterile classicism; romanticism made possible, especially in art, a great expansion of the human consciousness.

No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.