Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

Investigate, educate and organize.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Know what you are talking about.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

The knowledge of all things is possible

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

Industrialize or perish.