The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.

Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.

The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.

The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.

At no period of [Michael Faraday's] unmatched career was he interested in utility. He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first chemical riddles, in later periods, physical riddles. As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised. Any suspicion of utility would have restricted his restless curiosity. In the end, utility resulted, but it was never a criterion to which his ceaseless experimentation could be subjected.

We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.

The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships-a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed institutions of learning in their entire history. Unintelligence could go no further! ... In Great Britain, the situation is similar. ... Until the figures are reversed, ... nations deceive themselves as to what they care about most.