Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Ignoring is not the same thing as being tolerant

Most people suspended their judgement till somebody else has expressed his own and then they respect it.

Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.

A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.

He who hurriescannot walk with dignity.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.