We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire.

It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.

The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.

I have procured air [oxygen] ... between five and six times as good as the best common air that I have ever met with.

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.

The more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes.

When we say there is a GOD, we mean that there is an intelligent designing cause of what we see in the world around us, and a being who was himself uncaused.

Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.

Orthodoxy, my Lord,: said Bishop Warburton, in a whisper, — orthodoxy is my doxy, — heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

Don’t throw away God’s plan for you just to chase a dream of your own making.

If words were actions then we would all be winners!

clouds may fill the sky but they are not the sky....

In track years... track is not like other sports. You do have track athletes that stay in this sport until, like, 35, 36, but I think when you get to 28, it's really difficult.

The thing that's nice about pregnancy is that in the end, you have a baby.

The Costa Rica experience shows that with dedicated resources, creative institutions, and a sound legal framework, deforestation can be reversed and forest cover expanded.

The first serious applications were in triterpenoid chemistry.

Eric Lewis doesn't play the piano, he devours it. He doesn't play music, he channels the divine.

To succeed, we must first believe that we can.

I've never been interested in being relevant.