Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.

So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians.

There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.

A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers

The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.