For the first time, preventing nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism is now at the top of America's nuclear agenda.
He who sees only what is before his eyes sees the worst part of every view.
The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.
If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.
Philistine - a word which I understand properly to denote indifference to the higher intellectual interests. The word may also be defined, however, as the name applied by prigs to the rest of their species.
The poet should touch our heart by showing his own
Why, when no honest man will deny in private that every ultimate problem is wrapped in the profoundest mystery, do honest men proclaim in pulpits that unhesitating certainty is the duty of the most foolish and ignorant? Is it not a spectacle to make the angels laugh?
I think people couldn't really put me in [one race]. I wasn't Mexican, I wasn't white, I wasn't black, I wasn't Asian. . . I wasn't anything, and I didn't really fit into anybody's group. My dad is Mexican, and my mom is French and Danish.
There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.
People who live in more than two countries are more successful innovators.
There is a difference between who is important and who is significant.