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For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy
can be nothing less than the abolition read more
For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy
can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong.
Progress cannot be organized.
Progress cannot be organized.
Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts.
Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts.
Please accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to any club
that will accept me as a member.
Please accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to any club
that will accept me as a member.
Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.
Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.
It is not at all simple to understand the simple.
It is not at all simple to understand the simple.
We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something read more
We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something going on in a small minority, perpetually beleaguered in a few walled towns. Now and then the horde of barbarians outside breaks through, and we have an armed effort to halt the process. That is, we have a Reformation, a French Revolution, a war for democracy, a Great Awakening. The minority is decimated and driven to cover. But a few survive- and a few are enough to carry on.
Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut.
Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut.