Error itself may be happy chance.

The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it.

But harmony is limitation. Thus rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing.

There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.

When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.

The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it.

The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from a legal system.