Cognition reigns but does not rule.

Science is a collection of successful recipes.

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

Talent without genius isn't much, but genius without talent is nothing whatsoever.

History is the most dangerous product evolved from the chemistry of the intellect. ...History will justify anything. It teaches precisely nothing, for it contains everything and furnishes examples of everything.

Cognition reigns but does not rule.

The most ridiculous were those who, on their own authority, made themselves the judges and justices of the tribe. They seemed never to suspect that our judgments judge us, and that nothing exposes our weaknesses and reveals ourselves more naively than the attitude of pronouncing upon our neighbors.