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All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

I think if the movie has resonance and stimulates the viewer to talk about it, you can have as large an audience as you want. The most important thing for me is that the movie exists. And that’s success enough already.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.

A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.