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

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

The father of Egyptology was Father Athanasius Kircher.

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

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

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.

Let the energy of experience be in configuration to the unknown. Know love crosses all paths in many forms, felt and never seen. Almost always.

I was never very good at exams, having a poor memory and finding the examination process rather artificial, and there never seemed to be enough time to follow up things that really interested me.

All I've ever wanted to do is entertain people - make them laugh, think, smile, feel creeped out or scared; whatever it is. I'm getting the opportunity to do that in various roles.

Speak not through the positive mind or the negative mind, but from the neutral mind.

If I was just considered a looker and wasn't considered an actor, where would I be in 10 or 20 years from now?

Do we always make our freedom out of someone else's bondage?

Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it.

If we continue on the path we're on, there simply won't be enough fresh water for everyone.

Give us a world where half our homes are run by men and half our institutions are run by women. I'm pretty sure that would be a better world.

A journalist finds out things by asking questions of people who know.