“If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?”
Knowledge“Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.”
Great“If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?”
Knowledge“Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.”
Money“The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.”
Great“The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.”
Fear“Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.”
Science“The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.”
Wisdom“The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties blind faith the one unpardonable sin.”
Faith“I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.”
Great“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.”
Nature“Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.”
Freedom“The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.”
Best“If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.”
Nature“I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.”
Fear“The medieval university looked backwards it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.”
Knowledge“There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.”
Politics“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.”
Learning“No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.”
Science“Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.”
Equality“Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.”
Time“Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.”
Money