My Pessimism Extends To The

If A Given Scientist Had Not Made A Given Discovery, Someone Else Would Have Done So A Little Later. Johann Mendel Dies Unknown After Having Discovered The Laws Of Heredity: Thirty-five Years Later, Three Men Rediscover Them. But The Book That Is Not Written Will Never Be Written. The Premature Death Of A Great Scientist Delays Humanity; That Of A Great Writer Deprives It.

To Live Is Often To Struggle Toward Goals One Has No Desire To Reach.

Nothing Leads The Scientist So Astray As A Premature Truth.

The Nobility Of A Human Being Is Strictly Independent Of That Of His Convictions.

We Find It Easy To Believe That Praise Is Sincere: Why Should Anyone Lie In Telling Us The Truth?