The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up.

You can't help people being right for the wrong reasons...This fear of finding oneself in bad company is not an expression of political purity; it is an expression of a lack of self-confidence.

Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face.

Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual edifice might collapse.

Show us not the aim without the way. For ends and means on earth are so entangled That changing one, you change the other too; Each different path brings other ends in view

The ultimate truth is penultimately always a falsehood. He who will be proved right in the end appears to be wrong and harmful before it.