You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.

...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.

A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.

I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure, Art, Peace.

The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.

Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.

Routine is the god of every social system; it is the seventh heaven of business, the essential component in the success of every factory, the ideal of every statesman. The social machine should run like clockwork.