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• In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable.
  Alexis Carrel...
• POSITIVISM, n. A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms our ignorance of the Apparent.
  Its longest exponent is Comte, its broadest Mill and its thickest Spencer....
• It is strangely in keeping with the manner of our courtship that the maid of honour should be a man.
  Oh! Thank you very much, my lord. ...And I use the word 'man' in its broadest possible sense....
• All true knowledge contradicts common sense.
• Already the spirit of our schooling is permeated with the feeling that every subject, every topic, every fact, every professed truth must be submitted to a certain publicity and impartiality.
  All proffered samples of learning must go to the same assay-room and be subjected to common tests....
• All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions. -- Leonardo da Vinci
• TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its own.
  Excepting in its foetal state, Man is without a tail, a privation of which he attests an hereditary and uneasy consciousness by the coat-skirt of the male and the train of the female, and by a marked tendency to ornament that part of his attire where the tail should be, and indubitably once was....
• The ideal reasoner, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearing
  deduce from it not only the chain of events which led up to it but also the results which would follow from it....
• download: vt. To transfer data or (esp.) code from a larger `host' system (esp.
  a {mainframe}) over a digital comm link to a smaller `client' system, esp....