The history of science has been a progressive obliteration of distinctions between humans and other natural phenomena.
Feb 262014
Feb 252014
We are all such good people, and do such horrid things.
Feb 242014
Credulity is fixed: doubting something obvious just clears space for believing something foolish.
Feb 212014
In every discipline the foundations come last; in most of them we still don’t know what they are.
Feb 202014
To wield power wisely it is necessary to obtain it.
Feb 192014
Never look for a synonym.
Feb 182014
Misspellers learn from speech, mispronouncers from books.
Feb 172014
Only the literary cannot profit from literature.
Feb 142014
Of all the lies taught in school, the most vicious is that one ought to perform boring tasks diligently.
Feb 132014
Good work does not make its own way in the world.