Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it.
Let truth be a banner big enough to hide the man who holds it up.
Degree is much: the whole Atlantic might be lukewarm and never boil us a potato.
They will listen with both ears to what is said by the men just a step or two ahead of them, who stand nearest to them, and within arm's reach. A guide ceases to be of any use when he strides so far ahead as to be hidden by the curvature of the earth.
Discovery begins by finding the discoverer.
Evolution pays and that is why there is evolution