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.

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question "Why?

A tragic writer does not have to believe in God, but he must believe in man.

Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.

Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.

Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.