If somebody asked me to design a religion

I would make it all about snow.

No good or evil and no suffering.

Just perfect crystals spinning

In ecstasy, ecstasy, ecstasy, ecstasy.

Science is simply common sense at its best, 

that is, 

rigidly accurate in observation, 

and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... 

only much, much better.

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible. 

Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. 

Thought is great and swift and free.

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... 

observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. 

Observation collects facts; 

reflection combines them; 

experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

Science is not only a disciple of reason 

but, also, one of romance and passion.

The saddest aspect of life right now is 

that science gathers knowledge faster 

than society gathers wisdom.

We should look to the mind, 

and not to the outward appearance.

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves 

in order to be like other people.

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; 

for what I know
they do not approve, 

and what they approve
I do not know.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, 

and strong is its current; 

no sooner is a thing brought to sight 

than it is swept by 

and another takes its place, 

and this too will be swept away.

Is the system going to flatten you out 

and deny you your humanity, 

or are you going to be able to make use of the system 

to the attainment of human purposes?

The roots of education are bitter, 

but the fruit is sweet.

Time, 

which changes people, 

does not alter the image 

we have retained of them.

The endeavour to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

I hope it is true 

that a man can die 

and yet not only live in others 

but give them life, 

and not only life, 

but that great consciousness of life.