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The best thing about the world is that it has a mysterious structure and the worst thing is that it has a grievous structure.
The tools used by the surgeons must be adapted to the task and where the human brain is concerned they cannot be too refined.
Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.
The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the adult.
Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.
The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convictions, his own affections.
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
If you have a fear of flying, don't. The data are very clear: If you have to travel someplace, the safest way is by airplane.
It is hard to look at the tumor and not come away with the feeling that one has encountered a powerful monster in its infancy
Memory cannot exist without endurance of the things perceived, and the thing perceived cannot remain where it has never been.
A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.
My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it's dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can't live without it.
To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man.
Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done?
The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.
I learned that in dealing with things, you spent much more time and energy in dealing with people than in dealing with things.
Nobody gets argued all the way into becoming a believer on the sheer basis of logic and reason. That requires a leap of faith.
We call for cancelling student debt, for bailing out young people like Wall Street was bailed out to the tune of $16 trillion.
Is there's always an idea that the party will continue the movement but that movement always dies inside the Democratic Party.
We're looking at catastrophic impacts in our lifetime, not only that every month now we're setting a new World Almanac record.
Unless you invest in people, you are not going to see growth in the long term, the medium term, and maybe even the short term.
All of today's DNA, strung through all the cells of the earth, is simply an extension and elaboration of [the] first molecule.
You have the right to be involved. You have something important to contribute, and you have to take the risk to contribute it.
When you have teachers saying, 'I don't have enough time for hands-on activities,' we need to rethink the way we do education.
Since it is through movement that the will realises itself, we should assist a child in his attempts to put his will into act.
No one ever writes me and says, 'We have a happy hospital'. Nowhere is doing it in a healthy way. That's encouragement for me.
The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.
Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.
To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards.
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information.
I write movies, so - I look at boxing, and I commentated on it, as if I were telling you the story of a movie or a short story.
When does life begin? When does the soul enter? That's a religious question. Science is not going to be able to help with that.
If you want to find the answers to the Big Questions about your soul, you'd best begin with the Little Answers about your body.
Democracy cannot function just on who do we fear the most, you know, or who do we hate the most; we need an affirmative agenda.
We call for a new kind of offensive in the Middle East because our current approach has a track record and it's not a good one.
At the heart of my metaphysic there is the ultimate question and at the heart of the universe there is the ultimate questioner.
It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance.
We are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler than we are.
The word education must not be understood in the sense of teaching but of assisting the psychological development of the child.
If the ways of the Almighty are not humanly logical, it is not the fault of the Almighty but of the limitations of human logic.
I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
We know from hard research that educated populations have lower growth rates, are more peaceful, and add to the global economy.
Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.
The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than twenty asses laden with drugs.
Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever.
A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
We who run...are different from those who merely study us. We are out there experiencing what they are trying to put into words.