Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate circle

It is horrible to see everything that one detested in the past coming back wearing the colors of the future.

It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.

Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any.

There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.

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.