Do the gods light this fire in our hearts or does each man's mad desire become his god?

Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible$$$ but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

I don't know anything with certainty$$$ but seeing the stars makes me dream.

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

We do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say that he has no business here at all.

A man who has the knowledge but lacks the power clearly to express it is no better off than if he never had any ideas at all.

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.

When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.