Quote #8500
I would rather discover one scientific fact than become King of Persia.
Quote #12403
God gives us our relatives–thank God he lets us choose our friends.
Quote #30697
Where self-interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control...
Quote #34353
I conceive the essential task of religion to be to develop the consciences, the...
Quote #6455
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry...
Quote #4377
Word is a shadow of a deed.
Quote #31001
If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we’d be too simple to...
Quote #11720
I must be an optimist, because a pessimist is never disappointed.
Quote #20861
Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself,...
Quote #19246
Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.