It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

Nature, in her blind thirst for life has filled every possible cranny of the rotting earth with some sort of fantastic creature.

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

The typical American believes that no necessity of the soul is free and that there are precious few, if any, which cannot be bought.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

Science has always promised two things not necessarily related; an increase first in our powers, second in our happiness or wisdom, and we have come to realize that it is the first and less important of the two promises which it has kept most abundantly.

A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.