It is no small art to sleep: for that purpose you must keep awake all day.
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
It’s interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.
What, therefore, is a government at its best? It is a government that “governs” least and instead finds ways to mobilise the energies of our people.
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.