The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.

The worst that happened to men of science was that Galileo suffered an honorable detention and a mild reproof, before dying peacefully in his bed.

All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.

The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame.

Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science.