Science of to-day-the superstition of to-morrow. Science of to-morrow-the superstition of to-day.

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

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 marvels.

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 adding to my stores.

The Earth is a farm. We are someone else's property.

I think, therefore I'm going to have breakfast.

Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly.

In measuring a circle, one begins anywhere.

One can't learn much and also be comfortable One can't learn much and let anybody else be comfortable

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

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

Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They're always available, always friendly, and always interesting, and they never make me choose sides.

As rice grows riper, the lower it bows its head. Never lose your humility while you grow.

…The more enormous our wealth, the more extensive our fears, all our possessions are paled up with new edicts every day, and hung round with gibbets to scare every invader.

The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs.(on being 36 yrs old)

Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies."(Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)

On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live in. We tend to become good or bad depending on the cues sent out within a particular space.

I think when you have doubts, you just say no.

Get good live and get a following because that's what people notice.

Faith is the bird that sings while it is yet dark.

Oh, definitely and you know you take the bitter with the sweet but the benefits far outweigh the burdens of what I've been able to do for my family, my word.