Research And Writing Are Lonely Occupations. It

To Rest Upon A Formula Is A Slumber That, Prolonged, Means Death.

The Only Condition Of Peace In This World Is To Have No Ideas, Or, At Least Not To Express Them.

Science Is The Topography Of Ignorance. From A Few Elevated Points We Triangulate Vast Spaces, Inclosing Infinite Unknown Details. We Cast The Lead, And Draw Up A Little Sand From Abysses We May Never Reach With Our Dredges.

It Is Better For All The World, If Instead Of Waiting To Execute Degenerate Offspring For Crime Or To Let Them Starve For Their Imbecility, Society Can Prevent Those Who Are Manifestly Unfit From Continuing Their Kind. The Principle That Sustains Compulsory Vaccination Is Broad Enough To Cover Cutting The Fallopian Tubes. Three Generations Of Imbeciles Are Enough.

It Seems To Me That At This Time We Need Education In The Obvious More Than Investigation Of The Obscure.