“He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.”
“Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”
“When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.”
“Like so many men he had found that he had only one or two ideas - that his little collection of pamphlets now in its fiftieth German edition contained the germ of all he would ever think or know.”
“Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.”
“For the record, Irish," he informed her tightly, just in case she got the wrong idea, "I kneel to no one.”