A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
* * *
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.
* * *
While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able
to dispense with its martyrs,
I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more
thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.
* * *
Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well
to regard political and social reforms
as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.
* * *
We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure
and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment.
But environment is the easier of the two to improve.
* * *
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.
* * *
My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer
than we suppose,
but queerer than we can suppose.
* * *
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.
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