One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge

It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

Almost any game with any ball is a good game.

There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evil-doer

There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.