Seek simplicity but distrust it.
Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.
The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame.
The fixed person for the fixed duties who in older societies was such a godsend, in future will be a public danger.
[In many circumstances,] the most important thing about a proposition is not that it be true, but that it be interesting.
Nature, even in the act of satisfying anticipation, often provides a surprise.