Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science.
Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience.