A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

Anyone can see a forest fire. Skill lies in sniffing the first smoke.

Anyone can see a forest fire. Skill lies in sniffing the first smoke.

Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that read more

Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun.

Adversity is the first path to truth. - Don Juan.

Adversity is the first path to truth. - Don Juan.

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for read more

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same. - The Deer Park.

Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut.

Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut.

Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.

Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.

Scientific research sooner or later, but inevitably, encounters something ultimately given that it cannot trace back to something else of read more

Scientific research sooner or later, but inevitably, encounters something ultimately given that it cannot trace back to something else of which it would appear as the regular or necessary derivative. Scientific progress consists in pushing further back this ultimately given.

I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a read more

I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.