The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

No mariner ever enters upon a more uncharted sea than does the average human being born in the 20th century. Our ancestors know their way from birth through eternity; we are puzzled about the day after tomorrow.

The devil is merely a fallen angel, and when God lost Satan he lost one of his best lieutenants.

While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important.

The function of news is to signalize an event, the function of truth is to bring to light the hidden facts, to set them in relation with each other, and make a picture of reality on which men can act.