Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.

The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.

There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.

...I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals... I consider such laws a violation of civil liberty, subversive of democratic political institutions, and self-defeating in their purpose.

Learning . . . is - also an end in itself.

Physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse—without examining evidence which their “common sense” told them was impossible.

Anyone who can worship a trinity and insist that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything.