Only A Great Mind That Is Overthrown

Of True Knowledge At Any Time, A Good Part Is Merely Convenient, Necessary Indeed To The Worker, But Not To An Understanding Of His Subject: One Can Judge A Building Without Knowing Where To Buy The Bricks; One Can Understand A Violin Sonata Without Knowing How To Score For The Instrument. The Work May In Fact Be Better Understood Without A Knowledge Of The Details Of Its Manufacture, Of Attention To These Tends To Distract From Meaning And Effect.

Science Is An All-pervasive Energy, For It Is At Once A Mode Of Thought, A Source Of Strong Emotion, And A Faith As Fanatical As Any In History.

It Is Always Some Illusion That Creates Disillusion, Especially In The Young, For Whom The Only Alternative To Perfection Is Cynicism.

The Sole Justification Of Teaching, Of The School Itself, Is That The Student Comes Out Of It Able To Do Something He Could Not Do Before. I Say Do And Not Know, Because Knowledge That Doesn't Lead To Doing Something New Or Doing Something Better Is Not Knowledge At All.

Vanity Is A Static Thing. It Puts It Faith In What It Has, And Is Easily Wounded. Pride Is Active, And Satisfied Only With What It Can Do, Hence Accustomed Not To Feel Small Stings.