Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a great good to a less.

A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.

[The] taste [of the French] is too timid to be true taste--or is but half taste.

The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true.

Physicists have a bias to aspire to be "seers" like Einstein rather than "craftspeople" who do simple and practical research. I have seen that in economics departments. The same must be true to some extent in other departments.

What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.

We must not only be True. We must be Beautiful.

I'm not creating the universe. I'm creating a model of the universe, which may or may not be true.

You create the happiness and the balance that you have, and your own power. This is one thing that I know to be true.

To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.