When in doubt, observe and ask questions. When certain, observe at length and ask many more questions.
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.
The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.
Alas! While the speculative honourable professor explains the entire existence has he in distraction forgotten his own name, that he is a man, purely and simply a man, not a fantastic 38 of a paragraph.
Fixed ideas are like a cramp in the foot – the best remedy against it is to tread on it.
Of all tyrannies democracy is the most agonizing, the most inane, the absolute fall of everything great and elevated.
The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.