Robert Staughton Lynd Men Quotations

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

When the last Puritan has disappeared from the earth, the man of science will take his place as a killjoy, and we shall be given the same old advice but for different reasons.

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.