Data are just as often molded to fit preferred conclusions.

Probably the most important skill that children learn is how to learn. ... Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. This is a mistake.

You can't figure out what to do in the future by looking at how you did things in the past

Mathematicians are inexorably drawn to nature, not just describing what is to be found there, but in creating echoes of natural laws.

It's much more effective to allow solutions to problems to emerge from the people close to the problem rather than to impose them from higher up.

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

You can't break up with a soul mate.

The unique fingerprint of every individual defines our unique purpose and mission on earth.

Chance favors the prepared mind.

There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever the argument may lead.

A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world.

It's easier to write about a place sometimes when you've left it, when you can apply your imagination to your memory and let your emotions guide the writing about a place.

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.

True leaders are born when you find something to die for

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Nature gives us all, including Prof. Lorentz, surprises. It was very quickly found that there are many exceptions to the rule of splitting of the lines only into triplets.