All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings..

Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!.

We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them we grow weak like the Eloi in comfort and securi….

There's truths you have to grow into..

Man ... can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should he not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along t….

If Max [Aitken] gets to Heaven he won't last long. He will be chucked out for trying to pull off a merger between Heaven and Hell ... after having se….

The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic..

Ignorance is not an extension of time.

The British Islands are small islands and our people numerically a little people. Their only claim to world importance depends upon their courage and….

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony ….

With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure..

I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing, I see everincreasing possibilities before life, and I see no limits set to it all. Existence i….

I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there..

Bah! The thing is not a nose at all, but a bit of primordial chaos clapped on to my face..

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life..

Few people who know of the work of Langley, Lilienthal, Pilcher, Maxim and Chanute but will be inclined to believe that long before the year 2000 A.D….

An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic..

The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn..

Better it is toward the right conduct of life to consider what will be the end of a thing, than what is the beginning of it: for what promises fair a….

The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential fact of financial science, and endless social and political problems are only acces….

The too perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, a general dwindling in size, strength, and intelligen….