Science is not, as so many seem to think, something apart, which has to do with telescopes, retorts, and test-tubes, and especially with nasty smells, but it is a way of searching out by observation,...

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Trial and error” is not bad, but not the best. If you don’t know where the crowd is going, don’t follow it. Get set.

we have some good ideas here. But the only way to know if they’re workable is to try to make them fail. If we fail to fail, then maybe we’re on the right track.

At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that — the young man or the young woman must possess or teach himself, train himself, in infinite patience, which is...

This is not a new idea; this is the idea of the age of reason. This is the philosophy that guided the men that made the democracy that we live under. The idea that no...

Never give up your right to be wrong, and be sure to give others that right too.