A Man's Value To The Community Primarily

The Point Is To Develop The Childlike Inclination For Play And The Childlike Desire For Recognition And To Guide The Child Over To Important Fields For Society. Such A School Demands From The Teacher That He Be A Kind Of Artist In His Province.

Great Spirits Often Meet Violent Oppisition With Mediocre Minds.

The Scientist's Religious Feeling Takes The Form Of A Rapturous Amazement At The Harmony Of Natural Law, Which Reveals An Intelligence Of Such Superiority That, Compared With It, All The Systematic Thinking And Acting Of Human Beings Is Utterly Insignificant Reflection. This Feeling Is The Guiding Principle Of His Life And Work, In So Far As He Succeeds In Keeping Himself From The Shackles Of Selfish Desire. It Is Beyond Question Closely Akin To That Which Has Possessed The Religious Geniuses Of All Ages.

I Believe That Pipe Smoking Contributes To A Somewhat Calm And Objective Judgement In All Human Affairs.

Gradually The Conviction Gained Recognition That All Knowledge About Things Is Exclusively A Working-over Of The Raw Material Furnished By The Senses. ... Galileo And Hume First Upheld This Principle With Full Clarity And Decisiveness.