I was not out to paint beautiful pictures even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.
There is however another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons eminent for their knowledge it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.
That science has long been neglected and declining in England is not an...
Perhaps it would be better for science that all criticism should be avowed.
A powerful attraction exists therefore to the promotion of a study and of...
Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not...
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is...
No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why...
