Wisdom Sayings

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

She did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

If I had not actually got into this work and been called of God, I would back out. But I cannot back out: I have no doubt of the truth.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.

The important thing is to know how to take a hint, to seize upon the suggestion, however small, and to extract its full value.

The true logic of this world is in the calculus of probabilities.

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

The chemical elements are the children of the sun.

The more I think about the physical aspects of the electron, the more it becomes a puzzle.

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

The total number of minds in the universe is one. In fact, consciousness is a singularity.

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

My only merit is that I did not discard the cultures at an early stage.

As soon as I had found the tubercle bacillus, I found it also in the sputum of phthisical patients.