You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously.
The past is not dead, it is not even past.
Strategy is about setting yourself apart from the competition. It's not a matter of being better at what you do – it's a matter of being different at what you do.
The human mind is a set of information-processing machines that were designed by natural selection to solve adaptive problems faced by our hunter-gatherer ancestors.
The most important tool in chemistry is not the flask or the spectrometer—it's the imagination.
The historian must be impartial, but not indifferent.