The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals.

A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is pulled by the others,thus perpetually changing the configuration of the whole. If the cultural element called morals takes on a new shape, we must ask what other strings have pulled it out of line. It cannot be one solitary string, nor even the strings nearby, for the network is three-dimensional at least.

Above all, do not talk yourself out of good ideas by trying to expound them at haphazard meetings.

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

The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that these philosophies are designed to solve.

A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth.

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