"Hypotheses are lullabies for teachers to sing..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“In society every man is taken for what he gives himself out to be; but he must give himself out to be something. Better to be slightly disagreeable than altogether insignificant.”

“If one doesn't know one's own country, one doesn't have standards for foreign countries.”

“I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.”

“To the economically illiterate, if some company makes a million dollars in profit, this means that their products cost a million dollars more than they would have without profits. It never occurs to such people that these products might cost several million dollars more without the incentives to be efficient created by the prospect of profits.”

“We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.”

“The science fair has long been a favorite educational tool in the American school system, and for a good reason: Your teachers hate you.”

“A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.”

“Classical thermodynamics ... is the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced ... will never be overthrown.”

“Well, it may be all right in practice, but it will never work in theory”