If anything runs deeper than a mathematician’s love of variables, it’s a scientist’s love of constants.

Never underestimate spite as a motivator for genius.

Iron is the final peal of a star’s natural life.

Mendeleev, unlike the squeamish Meyer, had balls enough to predict that new elements would be dug up. Look harder, you chemists and geologists, he seemed to taunt, and you’ll find them.

Art, in other words, betrays a sexy mental fitness.

Germans at the time believed, a little oddly, that dyes killed germs by turning the germs’ vital organs the wrong color.

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

If you want to do something—you can do it! You just have to be focused and persistent.

Its circumference was tiny, but he had a life, and he would not give it up.

I do not believe in race as such. Race is a fraud. All modern people are the conglomeration of so many ethnic mixtures that no pure race remains.

My mom was Sicilian, my dad was Sicilian. Mom was a great cook, but all the women were.

Regardless of what the tour pros think, golf is a rich and varied game, and what all of us awkward fools do on weekends is what golf is truly all about.

If one thinks of an enlightened person in a negative way, as it hits their aura, it returns very strongly.

Where books are burnt, men finish up being burnt too.

I am 95% a theist and 5% an atheist; thus ultimately I am an agnostic.

No woman who understands the gospel would ever think that any other work is more important or would ever say, "I am just a mother," for mothers heal the souls of men.