Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be ''consistent.''

All concord's born of contraries.

Einstein is an analytical mathematician seeking to give a physical interpretation to the conclusions of his mathematical process. In this he is hampered by a load of contradictory and absurd assumptions of the school that he follows, which throws him into all manner of difficulty. Einstein has such a faculty for embracing both sides of a contradiction that one would have to be of the same frame of mind to follow his thought, it is so peculiarly his own. The whole Relativity theory is as easy to follow as the path of a bat in the air at night.

Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.