I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

Don't ever stop learning and improving your mind or you're going to get left behind. The world is changing like a kaleidoscope right before our eyes.

Human communities depend upon a diversity of talent, not a single conception of ability. At the heart of the challenge is to reconstitute our sense of ability and of intelligence.

The best reason to go to school, even if you're a so-called teacher, is to find out how much you don't know.