There is no way in which a man can earn a star or deserve a sunset.

Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

The vault above us is not deaf because the universe is an idiot; the silence is not the heartless silence of an endless and aimless world. Rather the silence around us is a small and pitiful stillness like the prompt stillness of a sick room. We are perhaps permitted tragedy as a sort of merciful comedy, because the frantic energy of divine things would knock us down like a drunken farce. We can take our own tears more lightly than we could take the tremendous levities of the angels. So we sit perhaps in a starry chamber of silence while the laughter of the heavens is too loud for us to hear.

Atheism is too theological.