The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.

Science is, in the best and strictest sense, glorious entertainment

It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism.

I once worked as a salesman and was very independent. I took orders from no one.

After being boxed in by man and his constructions in Europe and the East, the release into space is exhilarating. The horizon is a huge remote circle, and no hills intervene.

Take a portion of wit, And fashion it fit, Like a needle, with point and with eye: A point that can wound, An eye to look round, And at folly or vice let it fly

In a large university, there are as many deans and executive heads as there are schools and departments. Their relations to one another are intricate and periodic; in fact, "galaxy" is too loose a term: it is a planetarium of deans with the President of the University as a central sun. One can see eclipses, inner systems, and oppositions.