[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fir….

Force plays a much larger part in the government of the world than it did before 1914, and what is especially alarming, force tends increasingly to f….

In obedience to the feeling of reality, we shall insist that, in the analysis of propositions, nothing "unreal" is to be admitted. But, after all, if….

All the labor of all the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction. So now, ….

This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate..

Writing can be either readable or precise, but not at the same time..

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a g….

The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself..

St. Paul introduced an entirely novel view of marriage, that it existed primarily to prevent the sin of fornication. It is just as if one were to mai….

The tendency of our perceptions is to emphasise increasingly the objective elements in an impression, unless we have some special reason, as artists ….

Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from..

For a good notation has a subtlety and suggestiveness which at times make it seem almost like a live teacher..

Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible..

A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires..

Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives I think it is….

The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind..

[One] must look into hell before one has any right to speak of heaven..

If the West can claim superiority in anything, it is . . . in science and scientific technique..

There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote..

All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception at the top..

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill w….