Quote #5746
Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word “academic” in a pejorative sense...
Quote #13138
A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.
Quote #12292
For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which...
Quote #9740
The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things...
Quote #11706
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang...
Quote #23931
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending...
Quote #6098
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell...
Quote #26401
Everything beautiful has its moment and then passes away.
Quote #21265
The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter...
Quote #31470
There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself...