Liberation from the tyranny of the body contributes to greatness, but just as much to greatness in sin as to greatness in virtue.

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.

What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth.

To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attibutable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

The problem of finding a collection of “wise” men and leaving the government to them is thus an insoluble one. That is the ultimate reason for democracy.

Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know, we become insensitive to many things of great importance.

The universe does not reveal itself to undergraduates or fools: This is the entire premise of higher education.

Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

Lazy thinking is not creative or productive.

For my part, I plan to work out a fair and adequate redistribution of city services to all city neighborhoods.

I'm no George Brett, and I probably never will be.

But there are wanderers o'er Eternity Whose bark drives on and on, and anchor'd ne'er shall be.

Having plants and flowers in my space makes me feel very calm and Zen. For me, its important to meditate every morning to be very clear in the head, and nature really helps me do the same thing.

The best scary movies have great humor in them and a great story.

It is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the most splendid specimen of Gothic architecture that is overlaid by a mortgage.