Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.
Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.
I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.
What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.
Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.
One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?
There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.
A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.