It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.

• To be adult is to be alone.
• Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
• Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
• Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.
• God, that dumping ground of our dreams.
• Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.
• When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
• There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
• One kills a man, one is an assassin one kills millions, one is a conqueror one kills everybody, one is a god.
• Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.