“Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.”
“Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt --O, marvelous error -- That there was a beehive here inside my heartAnd the golden bees were making white combsAnd sweet honey from all my failures.”
“Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are!”
“The supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a simple datum of experience.”
“Criminal: a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.”
“Sufficiently simple natural structures are predictable but uncontrollable, whereas sufficiently complex symbolic descriptions are controllable but unpredictable.”