George Will
George Will
George Frederick Willis an American newspaper columnist and political commentator. He is a Pulitzer Prize–winner known for his conservative commentary on politics. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 May 1941
stars truth ignorance
Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars.
order mind trying
When we try to imagine a chaos we fail. ... In its very fiber the mind is an order and refuses to build a chaos.
fall wind long
Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.
errors upset facts
Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions.
science fields common
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.
knowledge thinking trying
Is any knowledge worthless? Try to think of an example.
two silence different
Dumbness and silence are two different things.
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.