Quote #21730
In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.
Quote #17867
Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their...
Quote #2496
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
Quote #13191
(On Western civilization) I think it would be a good idea.
Quote #13777
Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of...
Quote #1740
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out...
Quote #9948
One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives...
Quote #7913
It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has...
Quote #561
Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it.
Quote #5064
Man’s main task is to give birth to himself.