The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.

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

Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.

Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.

The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.

Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.

In the long run we are all dead.