"WHEN you start searching for 'pure elements' in literature you will find that literature has been created by the following classes of persons: 1 Inventors. Men who found a new process, or whose extant work gives us the first known example of a process. 2 The masters. Men who combined a number of suc"
"Until you have made your own survey and your own closer inspection you might at least beware and avoid accepting opinions: 1 From men who haven't themselves produced notable work. 2 From men who have not themselves taken the risk of printing the results of their own personal inspection and survey, e"
"In general we may say that the deliquescence of instruction in any art proceeds in this manner. I A master invents a gadget, or procedure to perform a particular function, or a limited set of functions. Pupils adopt the gadget. Most of them use it less skilfully than the master. The next genius may "
"IV A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."