In Science, New Ideas Are At First

The Appeal Of The Cat Lies In The Very Fact That She Has Formed No Close Bond With [man], That She Has The Uncompromising Independence Of A Tiger Or A Leopard While She Is Hunting In His Stables And Barns: That She Still Remains Mysterious And Remote When She Is Rubbing Herself Gently Against The Legs Of Her Mistress Or Purring Contentedly In Front Of The Fire.

All Living Beings Have Received Their Weapons Through The Same Process Of Evolution That Moulded Their Impulses And Inhibitions; For The Structural Plan Of The Body And The System Of Behaviour Of A Species Are Parts Of The Same Whole.... Wordsworth Is Right: There Is Only One Being In Possession Of Weapons Which Do Not Grow On His Body And Of Whose Working Plan, Therefore, The Instincts Of His Species Know Nothing And In The Usage Of Which He Has No Correspondingly Adequate Inhibition.

It Ought To Be Realized By All Dog Owners That Obesity Shortens A Dog's Life Quite Considerably, A Life Which Is Much Too Short Anyhow.

Truth In Science Can Be Defined As The Working Hypothesis Best Suited To Open The Way To The Next Better One.

We Had Better Dispense With The Personification Of Evil, Because It Leads, All Too Easily, To The Most Dangerous Kind Of War: Religious War.