The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.

Our children's children will hear a good story.

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.