Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience rather than understanding that influences behavior.

Reason observation and experience the holy trinity of science.

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

I wish I could give you a lot of advice based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses.

Any experience can be transformed into something of value.

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

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

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.

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.