Every cause produces more than one effect.
Worse than any severe mental illness, is the illness of bigotry.
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.
To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.
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.
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial and government or military pressures.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.