At root what is needed for scientific inquiry is just receptivity to data, skill in reasoning, and yearning for truth. Admittedly, ingenuity can help too.

To be is to be the value of a variable.

Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.

Irrefragability, thy name is mathematics.

Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.

We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it.

Creatures inveterately wrong in their inductions have a pathetic but praise-worthy tendency to die before reproducing their kind.

I have been accused of denying consciousness but I am not conscious of having done so.

Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.

One man's antinomy is another man's falsidical paradox, give or take a couple of thousand years.

The scientist is indistinguishable from the common man in his sense of evidence, except that the scientist is more careful.

Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice.

I'm a Blackmoore, Felicity. I get what I want.

Onions can make even Heirs and Widows weep.

To enjoy - to love a thing for its own sake and for no other reason.

At times, he even admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it.

In terms of brain development, musical performance is every bit as important educationally as reading or writing.

Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like; Friendship is a sheltering tree; Oh the joys that came down shower-like, Of friendship, love, and liberty, Ere I was old!

Time and energy. Those are the most valuable sacrifices leaders can make.

Everything in food works together to create health or disease.