I mean, you could claim that anything’s real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody’s proved it doesn’t exist!
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married, or own a house as if life was some kind of grocery list. But no one ever asks you if you are happy.
Every cause produces more than one effect.
I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial and government or military pressures.
Give me 6 hours to chop a tree, I will spend the first 4 sharpening my axe.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
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.
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.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.