Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.

All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the action of natural and moral forces.

The originator of a new concept...finds, as a rule, that it is much more difficult to find out why other people do not understand him, than it was to discover the new truth.

Music stands in a much closer connection with pure sensation than any of the other arts.

Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.

The quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished.

A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity.

What we see is the solution to a computational problem, our brains compute the most likely causes from the photon absorptions within our eyes.

The smallest quantity of alcohol scares away novel ideas.

Black is real sensation, even if it is produced by entire absence of light. The sensation of black is distinctly different from the lack of all sensations.

Music strikes the ear as a perfectly undisturbed uniform sound which remains unaltered as long as it exists.

Children are God’s way of letting us know His work will continue, even long after we are gone.

I knew exactly how he felt because I had walked in his shoes, wary and distrustful, unable to believe anybody could care about me without asking for something in return.

But when it comes time to decide your fate, they'll sign you on the line right next to Satan. Cause' they don't care about us. They just use us up.

God knows what we are going through when we grieve, and He wants to assure us of His love and concern. He also wants us to turn to Him and bring our heartaches and burdens to Him.

Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.

In order to have creativity, you have to allow for dead ends to happen.

There are no people on earth in whom a spirit of enthusiastic zeal is so readily kindled, and burns so remarkably, as Americans

The single most effective way to get rid of rumor and speculation is to be transparent.

An unprecedented wave of enthusiasm for missionary work is sweeping the entire earth. It is not man-made! It comes from the Lord, who said, “I will hasten my work in its time” (D&C 88:73).

It's not every day you do something that's never been done before.