I treated as few patients as I could as a medical student, and I never practiced medicine.

Being a native of Spain, the country to which I owe much of my education and cultural background, I was deeply influenced by my great predecessor Santiago Ramon y Cajal.

The nucleic acids have considerable biological importance because of their role in cell growth and in the transmission of hereditary characters.

Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.

I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.