John Dewey

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.

The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.

We actually have the tools in the life sciences to achieve anything that you have the audacity to envision. I just hope to live long enough not to die.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.