The Sputnik is just to me like a firework, a rocket, a new invention.

People think of faith as being something that you don't really believe, a device in helping you believe simply it. Of course that is quite wrong. As Pascal says, faith is a gift of God. It is different from the proof of it. It is the kind of faith God himself places in the heart, of which the proof is often the instrument... He says of it, too, that it is the heart which is aware of God, and not reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not be reason.

Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

When Dwight Eisenhower became president, I personally was delighted. I thought that that was a very good thing.

I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity it has.

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.