20 Quotes by John B. Goodenough

So a good teacher always makes you do something a little bit more than you thought that you could do.

Wisdom comes out of dialogue so you have to develop the capacity to expose your own ignorance in order that they may discover their own wisdom.

My objective was never to make money. I wanted to contribute to human knowledge and betterment.

I'm extremely happy the lithium-ion batteries helped communications around the world.

Some of us are turtles; we crawl and struggle along, and we haven't maybe figured it out by the time we're 30. But the turtles have to keep on walking.

I've had an interesting career, and I don't know if it was by chance or grace.

Well as I say, don't believe everything that you read and don't be afraid to think and it is alright to understand what has gone before but don't just rely on copying but develop your internal voice and your own internal means of interpreting.

Live to 97 and you can do anything.

There are a lot of people doing good work, but we need to get the burning of fossil fuels off the highways and speedways of the world, so that we'll step up on global warming.