There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.
It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.
Show love, compassion, protection & generosity to those who depend on you – in fact, to everyone.
Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
Comedy is acting out optimism.
Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.
What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
Every man's memory is his private literature.
He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
A person preaches well that lives well.
Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.