Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.

Never think that you already know all. However highly you are appraised, always have the courage to say to yourself-I am ignorant.

When the dog is repeatedly teased with the sight of objects inducing salivary secretion from a distance, the reaction of the salivary glands grows weaker and weaker and finally drops to zero.

Science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching.

While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things.

Men are apt to be much more influenced by words than by the actual facts of the surrounding reality

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.

Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands.

It is still open to question whether psychology is a natural science, or whether it can be regarded as a science at all.

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly.

School yourself to demureness and patience. Learn to inure yourself to drudgery in science. Learn, compare, collect the facts.

True self-confidence never needs to degrade the confidence of others in order to grow. If it does, it’s not confidence at all…it’s ego.

And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.

Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing something and tearing it up...

Time is a dream ... a destroying dream; It lays great cities in dust, it fills the seas; It covers the face of beauty, and tumbles walls.

Computing should be taught as a rigorous - but fun - discipline covering topics like programming, database structures, and algorithms. That doesn't have to be boring.

I think we acquire habits of mind when we're little, and I lived in the future because I was always imagining being a grown-up, when I could get out.

Certainly, the church is not primarily a moral institution, but the bearer of a hope.

Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.

I believed in happily ever after as much as anyone, because Jane Austen, Prince Charming, and Hugh Grant promised me it could happen. But maybe that particular delusion was universal.