The world shall perish not for lack of wonders, but for lack of wonder

I will jump into the river to save two brothers or eight cousins.

This is my prediction for the future: Whatever hasn't happened will happen, and no one will be safe from it.

Until politics are a branch of science, we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.

If materialism is true, it seems to me that we cannot know that it is true. If my opinions are the result of the chemical processes going on in my brain, they are determined by the laws of chemistry, not those of logic.

The advance of scientific knowledge does not seem to make either our universe or our inner life in it any less mysterious.