The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist.
Nature is the greatest teacher and I learn from her best when others are asleep. In the still dark hours before sunrise God tells me of the plans I am to fulfill.
Learn to do the common things uncommonly well.
I think I’ll sleep now.
Education, in the broadest of truest sense, will make an individual seek to help all people, regardless of race, regardless of color, regardless of condition.
There is literally nothing that I ever asked to do, that I asked the blessed Creator to help me to do, that I have not been able to accomplish.
Education is understanding relationships.
One of the things that has helped me as much as any other is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.
More and more as we come closer and closer in touch with nature and its teachings are we able to see the Divine and are therefore fitted to interpret correctly the various languages spoken by all forms of nature about us.
I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self.
How far you go in life depends on...
You can’t teach people anything. You can only draw out.
Look about you. Take hold of the things that are here. Let them talk to you. You learn to talk to them.
Young people, I want to beg of you always keep your eyes open to what Mother Nature has to teach you. By so doing you will learn many valuable things every day of your life.
Without my Savior, I am nothing.
He who puts a product upon the market as it demands, controls that market, regardless of color. It is simply a survival of the fittest.
God is going to reveal to us things He never revealed before if we put our hands in His.
I know that my Redeemer lives. Thank God I love humanity, complexion doesn’t interest me one single a bit.
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. At no other time have I so sharp an understanding of what God means to do with me as in these hours of dawn.
The beating on the tail of the snake may stop his progress a little, but the more vital parts must be struck before his poisonous death-dealing venom will be wiped out.