“This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.”

“It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us to escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.”

“Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.”

“We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.”