Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.
Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror.
To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.
The biologist passes. The frog stays the same.