Quote #14406
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little...
Quote #20217
God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to...
Quote #14701
It’s a shallow life that doesn’t give a person a few scars.
Quote #20589
Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
Quote #19613
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn’t perfection but progress.
Quote #5382
Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape...
Quote #19676
Basic research is what I am doing when I don’t know what I am...
Quote #7979
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor but even supposing knowledge to be...
Quote #5975
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and...
Quote #2802
The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem...