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I Have No Extraordinary Ability. I'm Simply An Inquisitive Individual.

When I Think Of The Most Able Students I Have Encountered In My Teaching - I Mean Those Who Have Distinguished Themselves Not Only By Skill But By Independence Of Thought - Then I Must Confess That All Have Had A Lively Interest In Epistemology.

Man, Surrounded By Facts, Permitting Himself No Surprise, No Intuitive Flash, No Great Hypothesis, No Risk, Is In A Locked Cell. Ignorance Cannot Seal The Mind And Imagination More Securely.

The Only Way To Escape The Personal Corruption Of Praise Is To Go On Working. One Is Tempted To Stop And Listen To It. The Only Thing Is To Turn Away And Go On Working. Work. There Is Nothing Else.

This Topic Brings Me To That Worst Outcrop Of Herd Life, The Military System, Which I Abhor... This Plague-spot Of Civilization Ought To Be Abolished With All Possible Speed. Heroism On Command, Senseless Violence, And All The Loathsome Nonsense That Goes By The Name Of Patriotism -- How Passionately I Hate Them!