George Iles
George Iles
rain sea waste
To render aid to the worthless is sheer waste. Rain does not freshen the Dead Sea, but only enables it to dissolve more salt.
pay evolution
Evolution pays and that is why there is evolution
truth men enough
Let truth be a banner big enough to hide the man who holds it up.
truth errors truth-is
Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it.
truth lateness lessons
When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness of his lessons.
discovery findings
Discovery begins by finding the discoverer.
nature next moments
Nature is full of by-ends. A moth feeds on a petal, in a moment the pollen caught on its breast will be wedding this blossom to another in the next county.
eye gun bulls
No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere.
men arches research
Ten builders rear an arch, each in turn lifting it higher; but it is the tenth man, who drops in the keystone, who hears our huzzas.
science ice focus
Form may be of more account than substance. A lens of ice will focus a solar beam to a blaze.
men unity use
A man's own addition to what he learns is cement to bind an otherwise loose heap of stones into a structure of unity, strength, and use.
roots curves tree
A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry?
teacher men two
They will listen with both ears to what is said by the men just a step or two ahead of them, who stand nearest to them, and within arm's reach. A guide ceases to be of any use when he strides so far ahead as to be hidden by the curvature of the earth.
superstitions statistics explanation
A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.