Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe.

The need for some venture of faith still remains; one must stake one's life upon something.

Far from being hostile to religion is capable of rendering religion important services.

The need for some venture of faith still remains one must stake one's life upon something.

The way of transgressors is hard.

We want to make sure we get living astronauts to the surface of Mars.

I didn't rebel as a child. I missed that angry teenager thing.

When my father began his work in the 1970s it was a very different EU. I pay tribute to what he did. But it has now become a very different proposition: the United States of Europe.

A "good" family, it seems, is one that used to be better.

I detest professional anythings but particularly professional writers. Most of them today are just garbage collectors.

Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.

The tools used by the surgeons must be adapted to the task and where the human brain is concerned they cannot be too refined.

Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and we've been trying to work out what our class hierarchy is ever since.

I'd like to go back to Paris someday and visit the Lourve museum, get a good running start, and hurl myself at the wall.