The scientific study of Nature tends not only to correct and ennoble the intellectual conceptions of man; it serves also to ameliorate his physical condition.

Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born at Mecca, in Arabia the man who, of all men exercised the greatest influence upon the human race . . . Mohammed . . .

Every movement in the skies or upon the earth proclaims to us that the universe is under government.

Science has never sought to ally herself with civil power. She has never subjected anyone to mental torment, physical torment, least of all death, for the purpose of promoting her ideas.

Over events, we may have some control, but over the law of life's progress none.

Time, to the nation as to the individual, is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.

How is it that the Church produced no geometer in her autocratic reign of twelve hundred years?

So great was the preference given to sacred over profane learning that Christianity had been in existence fifteen hundred years, and had not produced a single astronomer.

Is it not true that for every person the course of life is along the line of least resistance, and that in this the movement of humanity is like the movement of material bodies?

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.

Warns, lies, liars and mysteries everything in one place what more awesome than that???Better check out Blindspot!

I'm a guy. Unless the dirt attacks first, I leave it in peace.

Sometimes when your child talks, your friends cannot understand what he says; but the mother understands very well. So if our prayer comes from the heart, God understands our language.

One reason is because I was not being recognized the way I thought I should be recognized, so I stopped putting so much into what I was doing 'cause I was like 'Oh they don't care about it anyway...'

It's a privilege to act, and you have to protect and cherish it.

When the spirit of child's play enters into the creative process, it's a wonderful force and something to be nurtured.

There were hugs. There were words said by each of them. I don't remember what they were. Nothing haunts me more.

Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!