1. “I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.”
2. “The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.“
3. “There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.”
4. “Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature.”
5. “The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.”
6. “A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.”
7. “Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds.”
8. “Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.”
9.”A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.”
10. “The secret is comprised in three words: Work, Finish, Publish.”
11. “There is nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.”
12. “I have far more confidence in one man who works mentally and bodily at a matter than in the six who merely talk about it.”
13. “Shall we educate ourselves in what is known, then casting away all we have acquired, turn to ignorance for aid to guide us among the unknown?”
14. “Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.”
15. “The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.”
