What Bell is to the telephone—or, more aptly, what Eastman is to photography—Haloid could be to xerography.
My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist?
Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.
My sight is bad, my hearing is bad, I feel bad, but I don't suffer, I don't complain.
Scientific corporations might well become almost independent states and be enabled to undertake their largest experiments without consulting the outside world - a world which would be less and less able to judge what the experiments were about.
It's much easier for me to be silly than it is to be serious on soap opera.