George Iles

Dumbness and silence are two different things.

Discovery begins by finding the discoverer.

Degree is much: the whole Atlantic might be lukewarm and never boil us a potato.

Boundaries which mark off one field of science from another are purely artificial, are set up only f ...

Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of ...

Evolution pays and that is why there is evolution

Ten builders rear an arch, each in turn lifting it higher; but it is the tenth man, who drops in the ...

When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiari ...

No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere.

“A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.”

“Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.”

“Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.”

“Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.”

Nothing cools so fast as undue enthusiasm. Water that has boiled freezes sooner than any other.

Nature is full of by-ends. A moth feeds on a petal, in a moment the pollen caught on its breast will ...