A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front.

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing$$$ done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice.

I know only two tunes. One of them is 'Yankee Doodle' the other isn't.

We reap a reward merely in the act of helping others. We never know how$$$ or if$$$ that reward will come back to us. Helping is the reward; none other is needed nor better.

Only those you trust can betray you.

For if humanity has a future on this planet of a hundred million years$$$ it is unthinkable that it should spend those aeons in a ferment of national self-satisfaction and chauvinistic idiocies.

It's simpler to believe in a miracle.

The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.