There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Every really new idea looks crazy at first.

The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation of beauty, and of intellectual distinction, and of duty.

Nature, even in the act of satisfying anticipation, often provides a surprise.

Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.

Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open.