How about Pithecanthropus Erectus? Was it really he who ate the apple? Or was it Homo Pekiniensis?

Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; no fire, no heroism, no intensity of though and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave.

The satisfaction to be derived from success in a great constructive enterprise is one of the most massive that life has to offer.

It was the duty of wives to submit to husbands, not of husbands to submit to wives. . . men have stronger muscles than women.

When there are rational grounds for an opinion, people are content to set them forth and wait for them to operate. In such cases, people do not hold their opinions with passion; they hold them calmly, and set forth their reasons quietly. The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder's lack of rational conviction.

The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more amazing becomes what human beings have achieved.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos.