34 Quotes by George Iles

Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.

Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions.

Boundaries which mark off one field of science from another are purely artificial, are set up only for temporary convenience. Let chemists and physicists dig deep enough, and they reach common ground.

Is any knowledge worthless? Try to think of an example.

Dumbness and silence are two different things.

To render aid to the worthless is sheer waste. Rain does not freshen the Dead Sea, but only enables it to dissolve more salt.

Evolution pays and that is why there is evolution

Let truth be a banner big enough to hide the man who holds it up.

Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it.