Never Memorize Something That You Can Look

One Of The Strongest Motives That Lead Men To Art And Science Is Escape From Everyday Life With Its Painful Crudity And Hopeless Dreariness, From The Fetters Of One's Own Ever-shifting Desires. A Finely Tempered Nature Longs To Escape From The Personal Life Into The World Of Objective Perception And Thought.

The Creative Principle [of Science] Resides In Mathematics.

I Myself Should Also Be Dead Already, But I Am Still Here.

Unless Americans Come To Realize That They Are Not Stronger In The World Because They Have The Bomb But Weaker Because Of Their Vulnerability To Atomic Attack, They Are Not Likely To Conduct Their Policy At Lake Success [the United Nations] Or In Their Relations With Russia In A Spirit That Furthers The Arrival At An Understanding.

From The Viewpoint Of A Jesuit Priest I Am, Of Course, And Have Always Been An Atheist.