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Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction read more
Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to publick opinion. This is the weak point of our defenses, and the part to which the enemies of the system will direct all their attacks. Opinion can be so perverted as to cause the false to seem the true; the enemy, a friend, and the friend, an enemy; the best interests of the nation to appear insignificant, and trifles of moment; in a word, the right the wrong, and the wrong the right.
Mere facts are for children only. As they begin to point towards conclusions they become food for men.
Mere facts are for children only. As they begin to point towards conclusions they become food for men.
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.
One great society alone on earth: the noble living and the noble dead.
One great society alone on earth: the noble living and the noble dead.
It is the test of a good religion whether you can make a joke about it.
It is the test of a good religion whether you can make a joke about it.
The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are read more
The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.
Rejoicing not in the many but in the probity of the few, we toil for truth alone.
Rejoicing not in the many but in the probity of the few, we toil for truth alone.
Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.
Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.
History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.
History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.
