One may conceive light to spread successively, by spherical waves.

I do not believe anything very certainly, but everything very probably.

The world is my country. Science my religion.

It is surrounded by a thin flat ring, inclined to the ecliptic, and nowhere touches the body of the planet.

There are many degrees of Probable, some nearer Truth than others, in the determining of which lies the chief exercise of our Judgment.

It's evident God had no design to make a particular Enumeration in the Holy Scriptures, of all the Works of his Creation.

What a wonderful and amazing Scheme have we here of the magnificent Vastness of the Universe! So many Suns, so many Earths.

The rest of the planets have their dress and furniture, nay and their inhabitants too, as well as this Earth of ours.

Here we may mount from this dull Earth, and viewing it from on high, consider whether Nature has laid out all her Cost and Finery upon this small Speck of Dirt.

I do not mind at all that Newton is not a Cartesian provided he does not offer us suppositions like that of attraction.

I had not thought of this regular decrease of gravity, namely that it is as the inverse square of the distance; this is a new and highly remarkable property of gravity.

Love built on pain-the kind that lasts: whatever you love can be taken away from us at any moment but the loss of what we love belongs to us forever.

As I drove out the wrought iron gates I had entered, I noticed for the first time how intricate and beautiful they were. They were forged by hand so many years ago and had stood the test of time.

After all, there's only one aswer to be made to the young fellow who is asking constantly for advice as to how to hit. The answer is: "Pick out a good one and sock it!

Assume responsibility for outcomes as well as for the processes and people you work with. How you achieve results will shape the kind of person you become.

I confess to getting quickly bored by one style of expression, and I like to experiment with all different sorts of modes. I rebel against familiar tools.

The ACLU's got to take a lot of blame for this.

It has been a hard lesson to learn, that greatness requires suffering.

I've been a road-rat since I got my driver's licence at 16, so I've probably gone across America 20 times.

I've always thought of the audience. I just want to entertain the audience. That's what it's about: what's good for the movie, what's best for the movie, what's best for the audience.

Look closer and you'll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.