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Think off-center.

In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.

Science is about unravelling nature.

I’m an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

There exists everywhere a medium in things, determined by equilibrium.

If anyone thinks they’d rather be in a different part of history, they’re probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You’d probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.