Aids Quote by George Iles

Nothing cools so fast as undue enthusiasm. Water that has boiled freezes sooner than any other.

— George Iles

Discovery begins by finding the discoverer.

— George Iles

They will listen with both ears to what is said by the men just a step or two ahead of them, who stand nearest…

— George Iles

Is any knowledge worthless? Try to think of an example.

— George Iles

We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men.

— George Iles

Evolution pays and that is why there is evolution

— George Iles

A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value.

— George Iles

“Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.”

— George Iles

When we try to imagine a chaos we fail. ... In its very fiber the mind is an order and refuses to build a chaos.

— George Iles

Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars.

— George Iles

No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere.

— George Iles

Degree is much: the whole Atlantic might be lukewarm and never boil us a potato.

— George Iles