“That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so bri...” — George Santayana Quote

“That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.”

“I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.”

“Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.”

“We were surrounded by influences and interests that came between Stephen and me. The nurse who became his wife was seeking to undermine me, and there were wider influences, too, following the runaway success of 'A Brief History of Time.'”

“There was a brief period in college where I flirted with the idea of becoming a lawyer because my father was one. But I was cured of it rather swiftly.”

“There was a brief period of time when I was very young where I thought I wanted to be a veterinarian - largely because I liked cats - but then somebody told me I would have to cut animals open, and that was the end of that.”