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

So far I have been speaking of theoretical science, which is an attempt to understand the world. Practical science, which is an attempt to change the world, has been important from the first, and has continually increased in importance, until it has almost ousted theoretical science from men's thoughts.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. Those who continually search for happiness will never find it. Happiness is made, not found. To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.

Televison allows thousands of people to laugh at the same joke and still remain alone.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition.