The experiments I am about to relate ... may be repeated with great ease, whenever the sun shines, and without any other apparatus than is at hand to every one.

The nature of light is a subject of no material importance to the concerns of life or to the practice of the arts, but it is in many other respects extremely interesting.

When I was a boy, I thought myself a man. Now that I am a man, I find myself a boy.

Vision motivates, sustains and dispels doubt.

Proposition IX. Radiant light consists in Undulations of the Luminiferous Ether.

It must be observed that fishing with any living bait is to be condemned for the same reason as fishing with a worm: in all such instances we torture two animals at once for our amusement.

Bacon first taught the world the true method of the study of nature, and rescued science from that barbarism in which the followers of Aristotle, by a too servile imitation of their master.

Proposition VIII. When two Undulations, from different Origins, coincide either perfectly or very nearly in Direction, their joint effect is a Combination of the Motions belonging to each.

What's closest to your heart is what you talk about, and if God is close to your heart, you'll talk about Him.

I don't think Israel can accept an Iranian terror base next to its major cities any more than the United States could accept an al Qaeda base next to New York City.

I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I'm not very sanctimonious about what news is and isn't.

If you make an honest picture of war, it will be an antiwar photograph.

And now, dear Lord, I cannot wait Because I have a luncheon date.

I can never leave a bookstore without buying a book. I read four or five at a time.

I never ask my wife about my flaws. Instead I try to get her to ignore them and concentrate on my sense of humor.

A million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A billion dollars.

Lavish credit on anyone and everyone who helped you the least bit.