In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.

The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

The cat, which is a solitary beast, is single minded and goes its way alone, but, the dog, like his master, is confused in his mind.

Very much indeed of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into courageous self-sacrifice, and suppressed sexuality into religious emotion.

The religion of the atheist has a God-shaped blank at it's heart.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.