What is the pattern that connects the crab to the lobster and the primrose to the orchid, and all of them to me, and me to you?

Those who lack all idea that it is possible to be wrong can learn nothing except know-how.

Perhaps there is no such thing as unilateral power. After all, the man in power depends on receiving information all the time from outside. He responds to that information just as much as he causes things to happen... it is an interaction, and not a lineal situation.

The wise legislator will only rarely initiate a new rule of behaviour; more usually he will confine himself to affirming in law what has already become the custom of the people.

Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next.

A man walking is never in balance, but always correcting for imbalance.

It takes two to know one.