“The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.”
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Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.
I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.
In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.
Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.
