Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

Education isn't play--and it can't be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work.

Never be discouraged, because every wrong turn attempt, when left behind you, is another step forward taking you closer to your goals.

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.

The Bible of nature is the best damn Bible in the world. Its laws are perfect and grand, and all the prayers in the world can't change them. There is intelligence and law in this world, and there may be supreme intelligence and law, but so far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is all a damned fake.