“Art is the most effective mode of communication that exists.”
“Education is a social process; education is growth.”
“Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; the doing must demand thinking and learning naturally results.”
“To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is the key to happiness.”
“The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.”
“We only think when we are confronted with problems.”
“Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.”
“I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.”
“False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm.”
“Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.”
“Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy the interposition of a deity.”
“From so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
“The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an Agnostic.”
“It is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”
“Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”
“I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule.”
“Data! Data! Data! I can't make bricks without clay.”
“When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.”
“What one man can invent another can discover.”
“The lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.”