There is far too much of the feeding-bottle in education and young people ought to be supplied with good intellectual food and then left to help themselves.

The Bible account of the creation of Eve is a preposterous fable.

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Science is simply common sense at its best.

A well-worn adage advises those who set out upon a great enterprise to count the cost, yet some of the greatest enterprises have succeeded because the people who undertook them did not count the cost.