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.

Error itself may be happy chance.

Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world.

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.

There is no nature at an instant.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

Dogmatism is the anti-Christ of learning.