“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.”

“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”

“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.”

“By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.”

“It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.”

“Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.”

“Life is an experiment, experiment by sending as many ideas in the universe and see which idea takes off and put your heart into that.”

“Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.”

“From the dawn of exact knowledge to the present day, observation, experiment, and speculation have gone hand in hand; and, whenever science has halted or strayed from the right path, it has been, e...”

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettie...”

“To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. ”

“The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.”