Perhaps the best hope for the future of mankind is that ways will be found of increasing the scope and intensity of sympathy. - Bertrand Russell

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty — a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.

The facts of science, as they appeared to him <nowiki>[</nowiki>Heraclitus<nowiki>]</nowiki>, fed the flame in his soul, and in its light, he saw into the depths of the world.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.