The rest of the planets have their dress and furniture, nay and their inhabitants too, as well as this Earth of ours.

I do not believe anything very certainly, but everything very probably.

The world is my country. Science my religion.

It is surrounded by a thin flat ring, inclined to the ecliptic, and nowhere touches the body of the planet.

One may conceive light to spread successively, by spherical waves.

There are many degrees of Probable, some nearer Truth than others, in the determining of which lies the chief exercise of our Judgment.

It's evident God had no design to make a particular Enumeration in the Holy Scriptures, of all the Works of his Creation.

What a wonderful and amazing Scheme have we here of the magnificent Vastness of the Universe! So many Suns, so many Earths.

Here we may mount from this dull Earth, and viewing it from on high, consider whether Nature has laid out all her Cost and Finery upon this small Speck of Dirt.

I do not mind at all that Newton is not a Cartesian provided he does not offer us suppositions like that of attraction.

I had not thought of this regular decrease of gravity, namely that it is as the inverse square of the distance; this is a new and highly remarkable property of gravity.

Suicide is an act of man and not of the animal.

The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.

My dad was an autoworker, my mom was a clerk. Until I was thirty-five, I never made more than fifteen thousand dollars a year.

However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.

The fundamental laws of human nature are overlooked by social planners.

I watch one news channel until my soul can't take it anymore. It's the background of my life.

By listening to the creator within, we are led to our right path.

Let the world know your dreams, my friend; realise them!

I think if we give Glenn Beck the numbers, he can solve this [the national debt].

I admire King Hussein his courage in leading his country for a long time.