The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Worse than any severe mental illness, is the illness of bigotry.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
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.
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.