It is not my prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations.

The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernel of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education.

Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness is dead.

Analytic It is clear that the definition of "logic" or "mathematics" must be sought by trying to give a new definition of the old notion of "analytic" propositions.

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.