"It is a quiet truth that true innovation is born when curiosity dares to question long-settled assumptions."

"A dream nurtured by daily toil will inevitably outshine a wish born of idle hope. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"

"To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education."

"I didn't think that college math was for me. I didn't think I'd be able to hack it. And that perception of math not being for girls, not being for girls who see themselves as socially well adjusted has got to change."

"If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?"

"The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."

"The art of living is discovering that a single moment of clarity can change a lifetime."