The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

When it comes to brains, size matters. It's not all that matters, of course. Whales and dolphins have brains that are larger than humans', but few of the flippered and fluked set win tenure at Stanford. Our brains are the largest in proportion to body size, and they're also highly sophisticated.

A constellation is not an entity at all, not the kind of thing that Uranus, or anything else, can sensibly be said to 'move into.'

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.