The world has long observed that small acts of immorality, if repeated, will destroy character. It is equally manifest, though never said, that uttering nonsense and half-truth without cease ends by destroying Intellect

For the educated, the authority of science rested on the strictness of its methods; for the mass, it rested on the powers of explanation.

We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts.

The reason why research is like sculpting from memory is that in neither is there a concrete visible subject to copy directly. The subject - as sculptors themselves are fond of saying - is hidden in the block of material.

A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is pulled by the others,thus perpetually changing the configuration of the whole. If the cultural element called morals takes on a new shape, we must ask what other strings have pulled it out of line. It cannot be one solitary string, nor even the strings nearby, for the network is three-dimensional at least.

Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn.

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.