The discoveries of yesterday are the truisms of tomorrow, because we can add to our knowledge but cannot subtract from it.

In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot.

Aggressiveness is not the main trouble with the human species, but rather an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.

Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality.

The disastrous history of our species indicates the futility of all attempts at a diagnosis which do not take into account the possibility that homo sapiens is a victim of one of evolution's countless mistakes.

History is a priori amoral; it has no conscience.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself. Boredom sets into boring minds. The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.