Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet.

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 paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants.

...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.

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