The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.

The man who has grit enough to bring about the afforestation or the irrigation of a country is not less worthy of honor than its conqueror.

The chief end of science is to make things clear, the educative aim is to foster the inquisitive spirit.

Was it not the great philosopher and mathematician Leibnitz who said that the more knowledge advances the more it becomes possible to condense it into little books?

The Doctrine of Evolution states the fact that the present is the child of the past and the parent of the future.

A prolonged war in which a nation takes part is bound to impoverish the breed, since the character of the breed depends on the men who are left.

There is no counting the unsolved problems of Natural History.

Religion turned some folks belligerent.

Is that all?" she whispered.Gansey closed his eyes. "That's all there is.

Are you going to sit or are you afraid I’ll suck your blood?”“No, I am not afraid.”“Then come sit next to me.” ~ Trent and Kiara: Scarred

The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens.

A happy marriage has the tranquility of a lovely sunset.

The glory of God is humankind fully alive.

I don't think there are huge divergences between my personality and what they see on TV. And I think that's why I have been gainfully employed doing this. I'll always deliver what an employer wants.

I'd like to live off the band, but if not, I'll just retire to Mexico or Yugoslavia with a few hundred dollars, grow potatoes, and learn the history of rock through back issues of Creem magazine.

It is rare that a legislature reasons. It is too quickly impassioned.

Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.