The smallest quantity of alcohol scares away novel ideas.

All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the action of natural and moral forces.

The originator of a new concept...finds, as a rule, that it is much more difficult to find out why other people do not understand him, than it was to discover the new truth.

Music stands in a much closer connection with pure sensation than any of the other arts.

Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.

The quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished.

A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity.

What we see is the solution to a computational problem, our brains compute the most likely causes from the photon absorptions within our eyes.

Black is real sensation, even if it is produced by entire absence of light. The sensation of black is distinctly different from the lack of all sensations.

Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.

Music strikes the ear as a perfectly undisturbed uniform sound which remains unaltered as long as it exists.

Because if being a badass was easy everyone would do itLexy of Ankh(The Dragon)"Enlightenment

The first sign that Karma was now in cahoots with the Devil Incarnate to ruin her existance should've been before sunrise and pre-coffee.

Don't ruin the moment by saying something stupid. There's elegance in things left unsaid.

Do not indulge your weaknesses!

Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.

Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed; for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.

I don't think focus is in itself ever a bad thing. But focus of the wrong kind, or managed poorly, can be.

Greatness comes with discipline.

The South is a great driving destination for tourism - heritage, cultural and many other types of tourism.