One of the most beautiful hypotheses ever propounded in physics is ... the Dynamical Theory of Gases

Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it.

In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America.

My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.

The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington.

As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest.

Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.

We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy.

Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird.

What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed.

So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in the time of the American Revolution.

I slept under the moonlight and set my soul free, caged within jars like fireflies".

Satan--the impersonation of that mixture of the bestial, the malignant, the impious, and the hopeless, which constitute the fiend--the enemy of all that is human and divine.

To forgive and be forgiven, if it's the last thing I do, then in death's release I may find the peace that in life I never knew.

When an architect is asked what his best building is, he usually answers, "The next one."

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

The task we face is reorganizing the systems we depend on for daily life in a way that is consistent with the realities coming down at us.

Holden Caulfield is the best character in literature, period.

Exercise freaks...are the ones putting stress on the health care system.

You cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious hours.

I think the Macintosh was created by a group of people who felt that ah there wasn't a strict vision between sort of science and art.