“I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.”
“When the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for power.”
“Money followed; it never led.”
“Joining a sub-culture, any sub-culture, for whatever reason, is as I see it never a legitimate self-expression. It is always a result of sheep mentality; a wish to belong somewhere.”
“The ideal reasoner would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also the results which would follow from it.”
“What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child.”