Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
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Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different.
Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without it for a week.
Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling.