Let one persuade many, and he becomes confirmed and convinced, and cares for no better evidence.

What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be

The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.

And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.

The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.

Freedom had no place in the Soviet System. Freedom was another word for anarchy, and that wouldn't do at all.

You promise me, he said. That you love him. Enough to marry him and make him happy.

Musicians exist independent of any of the marketing terms or the categorization.

We also have to stop the flow of precursor chemicals that meth cooks use to boil up this poison.

Hint: money flows into most funds after good performance, and goes out when bad performance follows.

There is no perfection only life

Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.

They say in the military that a good battle plan can last as long as five minutes in real fighting. After that, it comes down to if the general is favored by fate and the spirits.

When we shrink from the world, our souls shrink, too.

I have a heart, says science, but I am a monster, says society.