There is only one proved method of assisting the advancement of pure science-that of picking men of genius, backing them heavily, and leaving them to direct themselves.

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

Just like a turtle, we only make progress if we stick our neck out.

Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.

Education is what is left after all that has been learnt is forgotten.

... scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning.

Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.

A Harvard education consists of what you learn at Harvard while you are not studying.

Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuous development of new concepts.

Every vital organization owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea.

He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground.

Where there is conflict, there is no God.

I’m not trying to fix you. I don’t think you’re broken.”- Damian (Marked Book #1) page 266

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.

Even today, when the Obama administration has liberalized travel to Cuba - and failed to reverse that liberalization when Alan Gross was imprisoned - there are limits.

But I think humans are innately religious as a species, so you don't need a specific excuse for examining the perversely unholy.

If I can give myself credit for anything, it's that I do try to learn from the bad. I've never felt so sure that I'm in the right place doing what I'm supposed to be doing as I am right now.

The artist makes his living by pretending, by putting it in a meaningful hole though no such holes exist.

I was first to break the news about the death of Lady Diana. The CNN team couldn't get into makeup fast enough.

An industry begins with the customer and his or her needs, not with a patent, a raw material, or a selling skill

A manager is an assistant to his men.