Such is the privilege of genius; it perceives, it seizes relations where vulgar eyes see only isolated facts.

Euler calculated without effort, just as men breathe, as eagles sustain themselves in the air.

The calculus of probabilities, when confined within just limits, ought to interest, in an equal degree, the mathematician, the experimentalist, and the statesman.

To get to know, to discover, to publish-this is the destiny of a scientist.

On certain occasions, the eyes of the mind can supply the want of the most powerful telescopes, and lead to astronomical discoveries of the highest importance.

Where should be be if we set ourselves to deny everything we do not know how to explain?

In the experimental sciences, the epochs of the most brilliant progress are almost always separated by long intervals of almost absolute repose.

Work for what you want, the pursuit of life.

When late morning rolls around and you're feeling a bit out of sorts, don't worry; you're probably just a little eleven o'clockish.

This is the extent of his knowledge of the sea: it was very big, it was salty, and fish lived there.

Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)

I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all.

Maybe if we said that sin causes cancer, people would take it more seriously.

I didn't like the '60s because it was too important what people who had nothing to do with the war thought about it.

Donald Trump is a strong leader.

Leadership is one of sports intangibles. Guys can score, guys can fight, guys can skate faster than anybody else. But not everybody can say, Follow me.