1. “The world of learning is so broad and the human soul is so limited in power!”
2. “A a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them.”
3. “We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.”
4. “People have to learn sometimes not how much the heart, but how much the head can bear.”
5. “Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.”
6. “I had only ordinary capacity but extraordinary persistency.”
7. “The best can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious and the best that can be said of me is that I have not pretended to what I was not.”
8. “Question everything.”
9. “There is no cosmic beauty like happiness.”
10. “The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.”
11. “Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.”
12. “It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.”
13. “Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.”
14. “Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned – not to see what is not.”
15. “We especially need imagination in science. It is not all logic, nor all mathematics, but is somewhat beauty and poetry.”
