“There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early...” — Thomas Huxley Quote

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.

Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.

For once reality and his brains came into contact and the result was fatal.

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

I love singing just for my own benefit.

The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.

I don't think Steve Scalise has a racist bone in his body. Steve and I have worked on issues that benefit poor people, black people, white people, Jewish people. I know his character.

I think that has been a benefit to me because I think most people understand quilts and not a lot of people understand paintings. But yet they're looking at one.

Instead of showing strangers kindness and giving them the benefit of the doubt, we increasingly show them only fear, and that is bad for us and them.