"Without an adequate theory, reality is irrelevant."

"Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt."

"Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped with 18,000 vaccuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1 12 tons."

"Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today."

"I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others."

"A good inclination is but the first rude draught of virtue, but the finishing strokes are from the will, which, if well disposed, will by degrees perfect it, as if all disposed will quickly deface it."

"For what I have received, may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received."

"Death: To stop sinning suddenly."

"They'll talk to ya and talk to ya and talk to ya about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, its gonna scare 'em."

"The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits."

"The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way."

"Those who stare at the past have their backs turned to the future."