It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can imagine.
A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.
I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul.
I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.
I wish I had the voice of Homer to sing of rectal carcinoma.
If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles.
In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.
My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern.
The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.
There can be no truce between science and religion.
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