"Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness."

"To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter."

"Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another."

"I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning."

"But by providing the background picture - the universal situational awareness that we desire - by showing the anomalies, the Space-Based Radar will change the nature of how we do our analysis and our intelligence."

"By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality."

"Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid."

"A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness."