What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You read more

What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning -- and some of them many times over -- what do you find? That you can swim? Well -- life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But read more

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is read more

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say read more

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far read more

In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.

Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.

Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.