Cynicism is the other thing that goes with sentimentality.

If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one's subject matter.

Women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.

in all cultures, human beings - in order to be human - must understand the nonhuman.

I had my father's mind, but he had his mother's mind. Fortunately, his mother lived with us and so I early realized that intellectual abilities of the kind I shared with my father and grandmother were not sex-linked.

Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.

we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.