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If Nature Be Regarded As The Teacher And We Poor Human Beings As Her Pupils, The Human Race Presents A Very Curious Picture. We All Sit Together At A Lecture And Possess The Necessary Principles For Understanding It, Yet We Always Pay More Attention To The Chatter Of Our Fellow Students Than To The Lecturer's Discourse. Or, If Our Neighbor Copies Something Down, We Sneak It From Him, Stealing What He Himself May Have Heard Imperfectly, And Add It To Our Own Errors Of Spelling And Opinion.

Before We Blame We Should First See Whether We Cannot Excuse.

The Greeks Possessed A Knowledge Of Human Nature We Seem Hardly Able To Attain To Without Passing Through The Strengthening Hibernation Of A New Barbarism.

Astronomy Is Perhaps The Science Whose Discoveries Owe Least To Chance, In Which Human Understanding Appears In Its Whole Magnitude, And Through Which Man Can Best Learn How Small He Is.

Whenever He Composes A Critical Review, I Have Been Told, He Gets An Enormous Erection.