Curiosity

Honor your curiosity. It is one of the most powerful forces you possess.

Graduation is a time for us to celebrate all of our achievements, but don't stop there. Don't forget to dream big, go far, and never stop learning.

Replace cynicism with its old-fashioned antidote, skepticism.

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

It's not deadly to ask stupid questions. What's deadly is to not ask the right question at the right time.

History tells us that modern science evolved from the visual arts. Observational science started with the visual arts. Galileo's first publication was not on a scientific matter. He wrote a monograph on perspective, on shadow and light.

He was committed to lifelong learning. He settled for nothing less than excellence. He not only sought truth — Galileo believed more than anything else that he would find it.

That's the power of truth and learning and excellence — the search for what it is that ignites the human spirit, overcoming the unexpected and discovering the unknown. That's what life is all about.

Never be so canny as to ignore the uncanny.

To generalize is to be an Idiot. To particularize is alone Distinction of Merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.

We human beings are grand because we have the power to understand. We ask questions about nature and most remarkably, we can construct mathematical models which explain how it works.