I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.

To feed applied science by starving basic science is like economising on the foundations of a building so that it may be built higher. It is only a matter of time before the whole edifice crumbles.

Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.

Should we force science down the throats of those that have no taste for it ? Is it our duty to drag them kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century ? I am afraid that it is.

I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy. ... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.

Sowing seeds of kindness always reaps a crop of heavenly blessings.

Whoever challenges freaks should noticethat in the method he does not mature into a beast.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else you are the one who gets burned.

Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.

Everybody's got a right to be a sucker ... once.

The person who can laugh with life has developed deep roots with confidence and faith-faith in oneself, in people and in the world, as contrasted to negative ideas with distrust and discouragement.

With a single drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian sorcerer undertakes to reveal to any chance comer far-reaching visions of the past. This is what I undertake to do for you, reader.

I don't think that anybody should be suspended for life for anything, other than murder. How is it helping someone to say, 'You're done forever, your life's over'?

Everyone only hears what he understands.

Saying that financial literacy means diversification is just another example of the fox teaching the chickens.