It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions.

Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.

In logic, there are no morals.

In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere.

Anything you can do, I can do meta

Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms.

Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability.

Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms.[Carnap’s famous plea for tolerance to which W.V. Quine took exception.]

What’s worth living for? what’s worth dying for? what’s completely foolish to pursue?

Love is what creates the freedom and relaxation to be who we really are.

Sometimes life hits with a brick in the head, don't lose hope.

Dostoevski informs everybody; or he ought to.

A book is not an end in itself; it is only a way to touch someone - a bridge extended across a space of loneliness and obscurity - and sometimes it is a way of winning other people to our causes.

Tell the politicians and the hustlers: live and let live.

I hope I'm remembered as the king of the world, the noble man who united all the nations of the earth. But that probably won't happen.

I thought I would break the scoring record when I got to 40 goals by the age of 27 or 28, but then Fabio Capello took over and he never picked me again.

The road is a fun place, and it's a great place to get out there and explore the country. But as far as the road life with the 'rock n' roll temptations,' there's not much of that with me.

Is not the commission of our Lord still binding upon us? Can we not do more than now we are doing?