It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creatingfuture dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.

Descartes, the father of modern philosophy ... would never-so he assures us-have been led to construct his philosophy if he had had only one teacher, for then he would have believed what he had been told; but, finding that his professors disagreed with each other, he was forced to conclude that no existing doctrine was certain.

All forms of fear produce fatigue.

Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.

Animal rights, taken to their logical conclusion, mean votes for oysters.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

More cranks take up unfashionable errors than unfashionable truths.