Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.

Science is, in the best and strictest sense, glorious entertainment

Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.

Out of man's mind in free play comes the creation Science. It renews itself, like the generations, thanks to an activity which is the best game of homo ludens: science is in the strictest and best sense a glorious entertainment.

One great aim of revision is to cut out. In the exuberance of composition it is natural to throw in - as one does in speaking - a number of small words that add nothing to meaning but keep up the flow and rhythm of thought. In writing, not only does this surplusage not add to meaning, it subtracts from it. Read and revise, reread and revise, keeping reading and revising until your text seems adequate to your thought.

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.