A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
To him, a stilted geometric love of arrangement was system, and indefatigable and feverish interest in the pettiest facets of day-to-day bureaucracy was industry, indecision when right was caution, an...
It lasted for a long time, I believe.A very long time. It was a great success, but even great successes come to a natural end.
It amounts to a diseased attitude—a conditioned reflex that shunts aside the independence of your minds whenever it is a question of opposing authority.
I tell you it's deadly when you start thinking your wife might be right.
And just how did you arrive at that remarkable conclusion, Mr. Mayor?In a rather simple way. It merely required the use of that much-neglected commodity -- common sense. You see, there is a branch of...
There was something ghost-like and insubstantial about gases to these early chemists. They called liquids that turned into gases easily, "spirits." Methyl alcohol, they called "wood spirit"; ethyl alc...
The Scientist - with capital letters and no smile.
In all the known history of Mankind, advances have been made primarily in physical technology; in the capacity of handling the inanimate world about Man. Control of self and society has been left to t...
For what could any Entity, conscious of eternal existence, want – but an end?
It's the writing that teaches you.
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
And so it happened, that when others bent their knee, he refused and added loudly that his ancestors in their time bowed no knee to any stinking mayor. And in his ancestors’ time the mayor was elected...
Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well maybe once.
Any system which allows men to choose their own future will end by choosing safety and mediocrity, and in such a Reality the stars are out of reach.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, b...
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There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save.