The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern.

I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

Blake expressed some doubt as to whether God had made the tiger. But the tiger is in many ways an admirable animal. We have now to ask whether God made the tapeworm. And it is questionable whether an affirmative answer fits in either with what we know about the process of evolution or what many of us believe about the moral perfection of God.

Capitalism, though it may not always give the scientific worker a living wage, will always protect him, as being one of the geese which produce golden eggs for its table.

And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.

If human beings could be propagated by cutting, like apple trees, aristocracy would be biologically sound.

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