We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain.

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.

The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.

When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing.

Art is 'I'; science is 'we'.

A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.

Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.

Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.

All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment.

You must first feel sorry for your sins, to seek the free gift of grace of salvation.

Down through the centuries the church has contributed more than any other single agency in lifting social standards to new heights.

But we don’t run on facts. We run on stories about things. About people.

We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.

On human levels of consciousness one may emphasize getting and having as the prime goals, in spiritual consciousness he seeks the way of giving and being.

You might be a redneck if your classes at school were cancelled because the path to the restroom was flooded.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

Every time I start feeling sexy I trip.

I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly, because they're surrounded by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable.

You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.