You don’t play for revenge, you play for respect and pride.
Ask the right questions, and nature will open the doors to her secrets.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.
If you are going through hell, keep going.
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.
The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.