Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Oftentimes, what you wind up learning is very different than what you expect.
Life seems to me a preparation for something that never happens.
If you wait for the big things, you can wait for the little ones.[Also known as:]He who awaits much can expect little.[El que espera lo mucho espera lo poco.]
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
For scientific endeavor is a natural whole the parts of which mutually support one another in a way which, to be sure, no one can anticipate.
A thing long expected takes the shape of the unexpected when at last it comes.
A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.[Un homme doit savoir braver l’opinion; une femme s’y soumettre.]
