To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.

To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.

Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.