Life Has Taught Me To Think, But

Science Even More Than The Gospel Teaches Us Humility. She Cannot Look Down On Anything, She Does Not Know What Superiority Means, She Despises Nothing, Never Lies For The Sake Of A Pose, And Conceals Nothing Out Of Coquetry. She Stops Before The Facts As An Investigator, Sometimes As A Physician, Never As An Executioner, And Still Less With Hostility And Irony.

We Could Hardly Believe That After So Many Ordeals, After All The Trials Of Modern Skepticism, There Was Still So Much Left In Our Souls To Destroy.

[t]he Departing World Leaves Behind... Not An Heir, But A Pregnant Widow.

If Nations Always Moved From One Set Of Furnished Rooms To Another -- And Always Into A Better Set -- Things Might Be Easier, But The Trouble Is That There Is No One To Prepare The New Rooms. The Future Is Worse Than The Ocean -- There Is Nothing There. It Will Be What Men And Circumstances Make It.

Unaware Of The Absurdity Of It, We Introduce Our Own Petty Household Rules Into The Economy Of The Universe For Which The Life Of Generations, Peoples, Of Entire Planets, Has No Importance In Relation To The General Development.