Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.

It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence.

What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information. The second-handedness of the learned world is the secret of its mediocrity.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

In a certain sense, everything is everywhere at all times. For every location involves an aspect of itself in every other location. Thus every spatio-temporal standpoint mirrors the world

The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.

Error itself may be happy chance.