“One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.”

“In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions. ”

“The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.”

“The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances.”

“Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.”

“The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.”

“There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.”

“Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tid...”

“And slowly, infinitely slowly, he began to trust. Not the sea, from from it; no one should make that mistake!”

“I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment, so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that.”

“I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.”

“Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.”