I am young and avid for glory.

Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed

I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.

Languages are true analytical methods.

Nothing is born, nothing dies.

Sulfur, when burning, absorbs oxygen gas; the resulting acid is considerably heavier than the sulfur burned; its weight is equal to the sum of weights of the sulfur burned and the oxygen absorbed.

Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.

It is impossible to disassociate language from science...To call forth a concept, a word is needed.

In performing experiments, it is necessary... that they be simplified as much as possible, and that every circumstance that could complicate the results should be completely removed.

It required 85 parts by weight of oxygen and 15 parts of hydrogen to compose 100 parts of water.

One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen.

Prayer is speaking to God— but sometimes He uses our times of prayerful silence to speak to us in return.

I've always liked older ladies, ever since my mother would have B'nai B'rith at our house.

The universe was born restless and has never since been still.

Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.

But you can’t live your life worried about dying all the time. If you do, you’re dead already.

See, well ya see, the thing is, he should have caught that ball. But the ball is bigger than his hands.

I probably spent more money trying to do things that I didn't need to do.

I don't get no respect. I called Suicide Prevention. They tried to talk me into it.

We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion.

I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but lives in Ghana. I grew up in Boston.