The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.
Never memorize something that you can look up.
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.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
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.
Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.
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.