The English Are Predisposed To Pride, The

The Abuse Of Books Kills Science. Believing That We Know What We Have Read, We Believe That We Can Dispense With Learning It.

Too Much Apparatus, Designed To Guide Us In Experiments And To Supplement The Exactness Of Our Senses, Makes Us Neglect To Use Those Senses...the More Ingenious Our Apparatus, The Coarser And More Unskillful Are Our Senses. We Surround Ourselves With Tools And Fail To Use Those Which Nature Has Provided Every One Of Us.

Frequent Punishments Are Always A Sign Of Weakness Or Laziness On The Part Of A Government.

I Long Remained A Child, And I Am Still One In Many Respects.

We Are Reduced To Asking Others What We Are. We Never Dare To Ask Ourselves.