Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.

Science repudiates philosophy. In other words, it has never cared to justify its truth or explain its meaning.

Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.

There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.

To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.

The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal, and no liberal education which is not technical.

...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.