"To speak seriously: the standards of "goodness" which are generally recognized by public opinion are not those which are calculated to make the worl… - Bertrand Russell

It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone's malignity.

The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition. The experimental habit of mind is a difficult one for most people to maintain; indeed, the science of one generation has already become the tradition of the next...

Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.