“To be adult is to be alone.”
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Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.
A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.
It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.
In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.