He was finding it ruinously expensive to be rich.

Many older physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse---and without examining evidence which their “common sense” told them was impossible.

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

Come Judgment Day, we may find that Mumbo Jumbo the God of the Congo was the Big Boss all along.

His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.

Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none; men cannot live together without them. From an anthropologist's view, 'justice' is a search for workable customs.