A man sufficiently gifted with humor is in small danger of succumbing to flattering delusions about himself, because he cannot help perceiving what a pompous ass he would become if he did

Quote by Konrad Lorenz

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Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be...

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be...

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis...

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis...

Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot.

Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot.

We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily,...

We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily,...

Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we...

Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we...

We do not take humor seriously enough.

We do not take humor seriously enough.

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the...

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the...

Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot

Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures...

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures...

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by...

History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by...

I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who...

I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who...

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that...

Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that...

I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied...

I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied...

Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany...

Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany...

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked...

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked...

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the...

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the...

Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of...

Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of...

You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete...

You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete...