“It's what we think we know that keeps us from learning.”
“Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.”
“The true worth of a researcher lies in pursuing what he did not seek in his experiment as well as what he sought.”
“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.”
“A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.”
“If We Must DieIf we must die, let it not be like hogsHunted and penned in an inglorious spot,While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,Making their mock at our accursèd lot.If we must die, O let us nobly die,So that our precious blood may not be shedIn vain; then even the monsters we defyShall be constrained to honor us though dead!O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe!Though far outnumbered let us show us brave,And for their thousand blows deal one death-blow!What though before us lies the open grave?Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack,Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!”