Source: 1920s, Sceptical Essays (1928), Ch. 17: Some Prospects: Cheerful and Otherwise
Source: The Heart Mender: A Story of Second Chances
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Context: One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered.
“Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance. Indeed, it is ignorance with wings.”
2000s, The End of Faith (2004)
“When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.”
page 294
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)
Variant: He recalled Dr. Sarvis' favorite apothegm: When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.
Source: The Monkey Wrench Gang
“It is a pity that this faithful youth is sacrificed in a hopeless situation.”
Quoted in "The Second World War: A Complete History" - Page 585 - by Sir Martin Gilbert - History - 2004
Source: Evolution (2002), Chapter 16 “An Entangled Bank” section II (p. 525)
" Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community http://pt.scribd.com/doc/2305083/Princeton-Educated-Blacks-and-the-Black-Community", senior thesis, Princeton University (1985), p. 112
1980s
“That the situation is hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best.”
letter to Bill Vogt, 21 January 1946, quoted in Curt Meine, Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work, p. 478.
1940s
