Discovery begins by finding the discoverer.
When we try to imagine a chaos we fail. ... In its very fiber the mind is an order and refuses to build a chaos.
A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry?
Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it.
A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.
To render aid to the worthless is sheer waste. Rain does not freshen the Dead Sea, but only enables it to dissolve more salt.