We've traveled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly towards eternity, without possibility of reprieve or hope of explanation.

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?

If rationality were the criterion for things being allowed to exist, the world would be one gigantic field of soya beans!

I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal and rebut the refutation. Endlessly.

"The [London] Times" has published no rumours; it's only reported facts, namely that other, less responsible papers are publishing certain rumours.