People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in which you can be happy. Use your old grief. That's the gift you're given.
It's tough watching a good idea lose because its backers are less eloquent or have less clout than its opponents.
May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery.
Don't set your wit against a child.
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.
There are three principal ways to lose money: wine, women, and engineers. While the first two are more pleasant, the third is by far the more certain.
The aggressive spirit, the offensive, is the chief thing everywhere in war, and the air is no exception.