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

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.

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.

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?

Hope is strength of soul.

Every age, after all, must have its own aisling and dream of a better, kinder, happier, shared world.

In a comic strip, you can suggest motion and time, but it's very crude compared to what an animator can do. I have a real awe for good animation.

Fear wins or Freedom wins, and I choose Freedom.

Certain materials suggest ideas and ways of working.

As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.

I think we are all hopelessly flawed.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

There's always a new challenge to keep you motivated.

When you stifle human potential, when you don't invest in new ideas, it doesn't just cut off the people who are affected; it hurts us all.