Maxims In Times Of Danger Are Useless,

The Philosophical Implication Of Race-thinking Is That By Offering Us The Mystery Of Heredity As An Explanation, It Diverts Our Attention From The Social And Intellectual Factors That Make Up Personality.

One Great Aim Of Revision Is To Cut Out. In The Exuberance Of Composition It Is Natural To Throw In - As One Does In Speaking - A Number Of Small Words That Add Nothing To Meaning But Keep Up The Flow And Rhythm Of Thought. In Writing, Not Only Does This Surplusage Not Add To Meaning, It Subtracts From It. Read And Revise, Reread And Revise, Keeping Reading And Revising Until Your Text Seems Adequate To Your Thought.

No Subject Of Study Is More Important Than Reading…all Other Intellectual Powers Depend On It.

Above All, Do Not Talk Yourself Out Of Good Ideas By Trying To Expound Them At Haphazard Meetings.

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.