Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.

The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.

No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

Error itself may be happy chance.

Learning is often spoken of as if we are watching the open pages of all the books which we have ever read, and then, when occasion arises, we select the right page to read aloud to the universe.

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.