We sometimes speak of stubborn facts. Nonsense! A fact is a mere babe when compared with a stubborn theory. - Samuel McChord Crothers

Creative spirits always anticipate the course of events. They do not wait for the dawn of a new era. They resolutely begin the new era at the moment when they see that the old era is ended. The darkness gathers, but it is a time, not for vain repining over that which has passed away, but for eager planning for that which must take its place. There is a quick transfer of interests to new problems which relate themselves to the new period.

There is no absurdity in its mental processes; all that is concealed in its assumptions.

History is an endless maze of unrelated happenings, until we divide it up into brief portions in which we discern a certain unity of purpose.