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.

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.

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.

You must see challenges as virtues of opportunities for personal development. You will then have the strength to overcome the challenge.

I go where I'm needed.

Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.

Skys are crying, I am watching, catching teardrops in my eyes.

I don't see anything wrong with staying young looking as long as you can.

Personally, I think they killed the bear because they were afraid of it. That s what people do, kill the things they re afraid of.

I wouldn't have filmed The Color Purple if the book had been a big fat novel. The reason I read it is because it is thin.

Every American election summons the individual voter to weigh the past against the future.

I love to produce a track and then play it for the crowd; that's the biggest kick for me!

To escape the cycle of tragedy, we (searchers) have to be tough on the ideas of the planners, even while we salute their goodwill.