All theory is against freedom of the will all experience for it.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.

I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know.

But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

Any experience can be transformed into something of value.

As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.