That the divided but contiguous particles of bodies may be separated from one another is a matter of observation; and, in the particles that remain undivided, our minds are able to distinguish yet lesser parts, as is mathematically demonstrated.

‚I am‘ is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that ‚I do‘ is the longest sentence?

Infinites, when considered absolutely without any restriction or limitation, are neither equal nor unequal, nor have any certain proportion one to another, and therefore, the principle that all infinites are equal is a precarious one.

Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

It’s funny; recently I’ve started to notice people’s impersonations of me, and it’s basically like a hyperactive child.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

The most successful detectives owe their success to noticing small signs. Scouts are natural detectives and never let the smallest detail escape them. These small things are called by Scouts ‚Sign.‘

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

Maybe stories are just data with a soul.

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

History is more or less bunk.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

If you look at ‚Blade Runner,‘ it’s been cut sixteen ways from Sunday, and there are all kinds of different versions of it.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

It is easier to be critical than correct.

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child’s eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

It’s one of the few regrets of my presidency – that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There’s no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I’ll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There’s no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

It’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers in it.

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

I am not a televangelist.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.