One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge |
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions. |
There are some people who want to throw their arms round you just because it's Christmas, there are other people who want to strangle you just because its Christmas |
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. |
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. |
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. |
There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evil-doer |