Everybody makes excuses for themselves they wouldn't be prepared to make for other people.

If we look at our attitudes consistently and work out the logical implications we're on the road to moral progress, moral understanding.

We become more worthy the more we bend our minds to the impersonal. We become better as we take in the universe, thinking more about the largeness that it is and laugh about the smallness that is us.

What is it precisely, that they are doing when they are doing science. Are they refining their instruments for observation or discovering new aspects of reality?

Those who share my heroes are, in the deepest sense, of my own kind.

The will to matter is at least as important as the will to believe.

Are there experts, ethical experts, that's very offensive to all of us? Because it's part of our humanity to have a stake in these questions to feel that we ourselves know the difference between right and wrong. And then along come these experts, philosophers, claiming, you know, an expertise, a special training, a special skill, a special talent.