“Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is the thing he understands least.”

A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.

It is not a question of starting. The start has been made. It’s a question of what’s to be done from now on.

It is not a question of starting. The start has been made. It’s a question of what’s to be done from now on.

A first principle not formally recognized by scientific methodologists: when you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

It is not a question of starting. The start has been made. It’s a question of what’s to be done from now on.

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.

A first principle not formally recognized by scientific methodologists: when you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.

A person’s genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest.

A first principle not formally recognized by scientific methodologists: when you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.

A person’s genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

A person’s genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.

Man comes not from an egg but from an animalcule that is found in male sperm.

An honest man here lies at rest, the friend of man the friend of truth the friend of age and guide of youth. Few hearts like his with virtue warmed, few heads with knowledge so informed. If there’s another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this.

Man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.

God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow’s head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

Man without life companion is either god or beast.

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.