"Commonly we say a judgement falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide."

"Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in water, so in war it is difficult for normal efforts to…"

"To adequately understand evolution, you not only have to understand how to be scientific, but you also have to know something about cellular biology, genetics, and anatomy, geology, particularly paleo…"

"In dreams you sometimes fall from a height, or are stabbed, or beaten, but you never feel pain unless, perhaps, you really bruise yourself against the bedstead, then you feel pain and almost always wa…"

"Apart from a slowly advancing end, we cannot be certain whether a sudden catastrophe may not befall the Earth, this tiny grain of sand in the vastness of the Universe."