How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a bloody mass of fur or feathers?

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

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.

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

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

Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.