Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
If you’re afraid – don’t do it, – if you’re doing it – don’t be afraid.
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.
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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.
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.
Every cause produces more than one effect.
Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways. I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.