Where should be be if we set ourselves to deny everything we do not know how to explain?

Euler calculated without effort, just as men breathe, as eagles sustain themselves in the air.

The calculus of probabilities, when confined within just limits, ought to interest, in an equal degree, the mathematician, the experimentalist, and the statesman.

Such is the privilege of genius; it perceives, it seizes relations where vulgar eyes see only isolated facts.

To get to know, to discover, to publish-this is the destiny of a scientist.

On certain occasions, the eyes of the mind can supply the want of the most powerful telescopes, and lead to astronomical discoveries of the highest importance.

In the experimental sciences, the epochs of the most brilliant progress are almost always separated by long intervals of almost absolute repose.

I saw leaving any situation where I was treated with disrespect as evidence of my courage. I wanted my daughters to learn that lesson of worth from me.

I never met a cold cut I didn't like.

Your good friend has just taken a piece of cake out of the garbage and eaten it. You will probably need this information when you check me into the Betty Crocker Clinic.

I love to sleep. My astrological sign is the sloth.

The best part of writing is thinking about the story. And then everything else takes a lot of discipline.

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

Textbooks don't teach people how to avoid paying any income tax. But that's what an army of tax lawyers and corporate tax accountants do.

I haven’t even really tried to win you over, Roza. When I want to, I can be very persuasive.

Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that.

My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.