Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.

Nothing is too great or too good to be true. Do not believe that we can imagine things better than they are. In the long run, in the ultimate outlook, in the eye of the Creator, the possibilities of existence, the possibilities open to us, are beyond our imagination.

Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government-subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm.

It is not a sentimental, but a grimly literal fact that unless we share this terrestrial globe with creatures other than ourselves, we shall not be able to live on it for long.

The advertiser is the overrewarded court jester and court pander at the democratic court.

Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually comes to discover it.