Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.

The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.

Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.

Life means progress, and progress means suffering.

....This world needs Utopias as it needs fairy stories. It does not matter so much where we are going, as long as we are making consciously for some definite goal. And a Utopia, however strange or fanciful, is the only possible beacon upon the uncharted seas of the distant future.

A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice.

It is little enough we know and the rest is darkness.