Even the development of the steam engine owed but little to the advancement of science.

Every vital organization owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea.

There is only one proved method of assisting the advancement of pure science-that of picking men of genius, backing them heavily, and leaving them to direct themselves.

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence.

The dignity of man is vindicated as much by the thinker and poet as by the statesman and soldier.

Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.

Therefore, a grotesque account of a period some thousands of years ago is taken seriously though it be built by piling special assumptions on special assumptions, ad hoc hypothesis [invented for a purpose] on ad hoc hypothesis, and tearing apart the fabric of science whenever it appears convenient. The result is a fantasia which is neither history nor science.