Quote #17886
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out...
Quote #6370
Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no...
Quote #18707
The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of...
Quote #3762
I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history...
Quote #12525
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking...
Quote #7375
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he...
Quote #3580
Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform...
Quote #12953
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Quote #21065
Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.
Quote #4084
While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of...