Usefulness depends on tractability.

Knowledge is a free good. The biggest cost in its transmission is not in the production or distribution of knowledge, but in its assimilation. This is something that all teachers know.

Now virtue may not always be its own reward, but in any case it is not usually bought and paid for at market rates.

Vast ills have followed a belief in certainty.

Unsolved problems, that's one of the great signs of progress in my opinion.

The world is changing. We're not really proceeding on a stationary basis.

One thing I learned from meteorology is that being an actual science was no guarantee of exactness.

Education is still, in spite of private education, a state matter.

The MD is well aware that the forecasts are no good but he needs them for planning purposes.

My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents.

Venture capital has done much more, I think, to improve efficiency than anything.

It was nice to borrow a slice of extra time.

I believe that parents who love their children do everything for them with love, even discipline.

Sometimes you finally understand something so profoundly life-changing your whole body starts to tingle. It’s like you’re made of vibrations that just jumped an octave or two.

We read of preaching the Word out of season but we do not read of praying out of season for that is never out of season.

Genetics is all about showcasing human beauty along with high-quality performance.

I don't need to prove I'm an adult by being ultra-sexy that's immature

I can make a song up about anything: garbage, the weather, things in the news.

We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.

It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live.

'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.