"Science is the topography of ignorance...." - Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

“It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. If you are presently without, hurry without delay to the nearest shop and buy one of mine.”

“Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.”

“A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.”

“Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.”

“Who does not see that we are likely to ascertain the distinctive significance of religious melancholy and happiness, or of religious trances, far better by comparing them as conscientiously as we can with other varieties of melancholy, happiness, and trance, than by refusing to consider their place in any more general series, and treating them as if they were outside of nature's order altogether?”

“One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.”

“Reason should investigate its own parameters before declaring its omniscience.”

“Knowledge is being applied to knowledge itself. It is now fast becoming the one factor in production, sidelining both capital and labour.”

“There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education oftenlabors to silence and obstruct.”