Much of today's public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may forever be overlooking the whole by an endless obsessive preoccupation with the parts.
The practice of patience toward one another the overlooking of one another's defects and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family in the professions and in society.
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger but in seeing it and conquering it.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.