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.

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.

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.

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?

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?

It was a room full of ghosts, arranged in readiness for days that would never happen.

He is truly great in who hath power over himself.

The great tension in media has always been that freedom and quality are conflicting goals.

Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.

The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!

The dues of discipleship are high indeed, and how much we can take so often determines how much we can then give.

That Mars is inhabited by beings of some sort or other we may consider as certain as it is uncertain what these beings may be.

The truth is lived before it is understood. It must be fought for, tested, and appropriated. Truth is the way... Anyone will easily understand it if he just gives himself to it.

I cannot abide the Mr. and Mrs. Noah attitude towards marriage; the animals went in two by two, forever stuck together with glue.

O villains, vipers, dogs, easily won to fawn on any man!