One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
If I had been elected president in 1948 history would be vastly different. I...
I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again.