The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. But science is one of the very few human activities – perhaps the only one – in which errors are systematically criticized and fairly often, in time, corrected. […] Read more

The sentiments in others can never affect us, but by becoming, in some measure, our own … David Hume Read more

The most difficult thing to endure is the manifestations of others. G.I. Gurdjieff Read more

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage. Robert Louis Stevenson Read more

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door. Emily Dickinson Read more

As if we could kill time without injuring eternity! Henry David Thoreau Read more

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. William James Read more

Anything too stupid to be said is sung. Voltaire Read more