The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, — but generally to be obtained at your neighbor's expense.

It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.

There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out.

Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind that looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10,000 years ago.

A conventional valuation which is established as the outcome of the mass psychology of a large number of ignorant individuals is liable to change violently as the result of a sudden fluctuation of opinion due to factors which do not really make much difference to the prospective yield; since there will be no strong roots of conviction to hold it steady.

The key to selecting the winner isn't choosing the face you think is the most beautiful but rather the face other people will pick

Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.