Father Nicholas Steno, is often identified as the father of geology.

Thirty-five craters on the moon are named for Jesuit scientists and mathematicians.

The father of Egyptology was Father Athanasius Kircher.

Jesuits so dominated the study of earthquakes that seismology became known as 'the Jesuit Science.

Father Roger Boscovich is often credited as the father of modern atomic theory.

The first person to measure the rate of acceleration of a free falling body was Father Giambattista Riccioli.

The idea of formulated 'rights ... comes not from John Locke and Thomas Jefferson ... but from the canon law of the Catholic Church.

Churchmen sought to introduce rational trial procedures and sophisticated legal principles in place of the superstition-based trial by ordeal that had characterized the Germanic legal order.

It was Francisco de Vitoria, a Catholic priest and professor, who earned the title of father of international law.

The university system, a gift of Western civilization to the world, was developed by the Catholic Church.

... a whole day’s tête-à-tête between two women can never end without a quarrel.

The real answer is always found not in the heart but in the bank.

Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place?

The most influential and frequent voice you hear is your inner-voice. It can work in your favor or against you, depending on what you listen to and act upon.

I like spending time at home. In Paris, people drop by and have a bite to eat, or they drop by and watch Friends on TV. I take my dog to the office there, and I walk to work sometimes.

Realize that the banality around us that passes as "hipness" or "mass culture" is as satisfying as "mass food"-only it comes in much more unappetizing portions.

Life is better when you share it.

I hope they invent a machine in which you type in the age you want to be, and it lifts and separates everything nonsurgically.

When you can't rely on sticking a pipe in the ground, what you have to rely on is unlocking the energy and talent of all your people - men and women.

If you pursue enrichment and growth, you must increase your references by pursuing ideas and experiences that wouldn't be a part of your life if you didn't consciously seek them out.