Science has never sought to ally herself with civil power. She has never subjected anyone to mental torment, physical torment, least of all death, for the purpose of promoting her ideas.

Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born at Mecca, in Arabia the man who, of all men exercised the greatest influence upon the human race . . . Mohammed . . .

Every movement in the skies or upon the earth proclaims to us that the universe is under government.

Over events, we may have some control, but over the law of life's progress none.

The scientific study of Nature tends not only to correct and ennoble the intellectual conceptions of man; it serves also to ameliorate his physical condition.

Time, to the nation as to the individual, is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.

How is it that the Church produced no geometer in her autocratic reign of twelve hundred years?

So great was the preference given to sacred over profane learning that Christianity had been in existence fifteen hundred years, and had not produced a single astronomer.

Is it not true that for every person the course of life is along the line of least resistance, and that in this the movement of humanity is like the movement of material bodies?

Practice what you preach and let people learn from you

Remember sixteen - when all the world was new and your life stretched before you like fresh snow waiting for your footprints.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

I'm an incredibly negative person, so any form of success is only ever going to be a relief to me and set my default position back to neutral.

I love to doubt as well as know.

He stepped closer to her. "Thank you for saving me," he said softly, and wrapped the bones of his arms around her. Valkyrie smiled and hugged him back.

The more we lose, the more he'll fly in. And the more he flies in, the better the chance there'll be a plane crash.

When we do not profess Jesus Christ, we profess the worldliness of the devil, a demonic worldliness.

I never read bad reviews about myself, because my friends invariably tell me about them.

There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; alwayswe are invited to work.