But Truth is that besides which there is nothing: nothing to modify it, nothing to question it, nothing to form an exception: the all-inclusive, the ….

Against all the opposition in the world, I make this statement - that once I knew a magician. I was a witness of a performance that may some day be c….

The ideal state is meekness, or humility, or the semi-invalid state of the old. Year after year I am becoming nobler and nobler. If I can live to be ….

The outrageous is the reasonable, if introduced politely..

People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in ma….

There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards..

I shut the front door upon Christ and Einstein, and at the back door hold out a welcoming hand to little frogs and periwinkles. I believe nothing of ….

Venus de Milo. To a child she is ugly. When a mind adjusts to thinking of her as a completeness, even though, by physiologic standards, incomplete, s….

Do you want power over something? Be more nearly real than it..

The theologians have recognized that the ideal is the imitation of God. If we be a part of such an organic thing, this thing is God to us, as I am Go….

It is our expression that the flux between that which isn't and that which won't be, or the state that is commonly and absurdly called "existence," i….

I conceive of nothing, in religion, science or philosophy, that is more than the proper thing to wear, for a while..

All biologic phenomena act to adjust: there are no biologic actions other than adjustments. Adjustment is another name for Equilibrium. Equilibrium i….

The history of science is a record of the transformations of contempts amd amusements..

The fittest survive. What is meant by the fittest? Not the strongest; not the cleverest - weakness and stupidity everywhere survive. There is no way ….

I believe nothing of my own that I have ever written..

A procession of the damned. By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded..

Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically add….

If human thought is a growth, like all other growths, its logic is without foundation of its own, and is only the adjusting constructiveness of all o….

I have taken the stand that nobody can be always wrong, but it does seem to me that I have approximated so highly that I am nothing short of a negati….

When we come upon assurances that a mystery has been solved, we go on investigating..