Science increases our understanding in proportion as it lowers our pride.

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.

The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.

When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing.

Art is 'I'; science is 'we'.

A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.

Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.

Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.

All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment.

Once leaders embrace the role of coach, they realize the weight of leadership is now balanced between themselves and their direct reports.

The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night.

I am harmony.I was harmony.I have always been harmony.I was born by harmony and I will go by complete harmony.

Black men struggle with masculinity so much. The idea that we must always be strong really presses us all down - it keeps us from growing.

The only thing that can be safely predicted is that sometime soon your organization will be challenged to change in ways for which it has no precedent.

As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people. As you overcome adversity in your life, you will become stronger.

One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.

She who pays the undertaker calls the tune.

Stupid people do stupid things, but people who are smart enough can do something really stupid.

And when I was a kid being an actor was not cool. I'm thirty now and when I was a kid in the 80s that wasn't a cool thing to be.