What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways. I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
It is the mark of an educated mind, to entertain a thought without accepting it.
The best brains of the Nation may be found on the last benches of the Classroom