We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

'It is love and reason,' I said, 'fleeing from all this madness of war.'

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 Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.

You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they taught you at school is founded on a misconception.

If there is no God, nothing matters. If there is a God, nothing else matters.

Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness. The work of ameliorating the conditions of life -- the true civilizing process that makes life more and more secure -- had gone steadily on to a climax... And the harvest was what I saw.