Curiosity

Our curiosity combined with our uncanny ability to find explanations defines us.

Hunger, inadequate medical care, poor housing, and inferior schools are the enemies of wonder. Doors closed for so many of our innately curious children cannot easily be opened.

Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.

I know a better truth than yours. It is larger, roomier, more complex, and more authentic than any you will find in a single formulation or dictum or label or theory.

The hardest thing in the world is to see what is actually in front of you, unmediated by your own expectations, theories, and wishes about what should be there.

BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD. Keep on reading. And remember when you hear yourself saying you don't have time anymore to read — then you're getting old. That means they got to you, after all.

The most useful suggestion I can make is that you go on being students for the rest of your lives. Don't move to a mental slum.

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.

A good education in skepticism can help us to discover those bad guesses, and to destroy them with mockery and contempt.