Unsolved problems, that's one of the great signs of progress in my opinion.

Knowledge is a free good. The biggest cost in its transmission is not in the production or distribution of knowledge, but in its assimilation. This is something that all teachers know.

Now virtue may not always be its own reward, but in any case it is not usually bought and paid for at market rates.

Vast ills have followed a belief in certainty.

The world is changing. We're not really proceeding on a stationary basis.

One thing I learned from meteorology is that being an actual science was no guarantee of exactness.

Education is still, in spite of private education, a state matter.

The MD is well aware that the forecasts are no good but he needs them for planning purposes.

My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents.

Usefulness depends on tractability.

Venture capital has done much more, I think, to improve efficiency than anything.

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.

But if you were to die ten times for him, you would not alter his destiny in the slightest

And this is good old Boston The home of the bean and the cod - Where the Lowells talk to the Cabots And the Cabots talk only to God.

Endure and persist this pain will turn to good by and by.

All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story.

If I am not today all that I hope to be, yet I see Jesus, and that assures me that I shall one day be like Him.

Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun.

Most volcanologists die in bed.

You don't have to be Magic to be special. You're already special, you're you.

To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.