Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.

If I had found out anything, it was that they could print it faster than I could study it.

Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe---in fact, random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance; the pot could not hold itself.

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

Of all the creatures on this planet none is more dangerous than a human being.

Never cast pearls before swine.

Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan?