I can generally bear the separation but I don't like the leave-taking.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

The greatest challenge in life is discovering who you are, The second greatest is being happy with what you find.

Think of the inconvenience of vanishing as it were from your friends and, correspondents three times in one's natural life.

Here cometh April again and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

Men do with opportunities as children do at the seashore they fill their little hands with sand and then let the grains fall through one by one till all are gone.

Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.

Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations.

We are going backwards in a field that’s supposed to be all about moving forward

I think I'd like to be remembered as someone who really helped people to have a little humility and realize that we are part of the animal kingdom not separated from it.

If you are interested in a form of science or interested in a particular kind of business or whatever - or if you want to be a writer, there's so much information out there, it's almost too much.

We do not progress from error to truth, but from truth to truth