But if capitalism had built up science as a productive force, the very character of the new mode of production was serving to make capitalism itself unnecessary.

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.

The present aristocracy of western culture, at the very moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country.

Published papers may omit important steps and the memory of men of science, even the greatest, is sadly fallible.

All that glitters may not be gold, but at least it contains free electrons.

The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development.

Life is a partial, continuous, progressive, multiform and conditionally interactive self-realization of the potentialities of atomic electron states.

The full area of ignorance is not mapped. We are at present only exploring the fringes.

The beauty of life is, therefore, geometrical beauty of a type that Plato would have much appreciated.

The greater the man, the more he is soaked in the atmosphere of his time; only thus can he get a wide enough grasp of it to be able to change substantially the pattern of knowledge and action.

The only way of learning the method of science is the long and bitter way of personal experience.

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel. -Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1844-1924)

Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally.

Communication with the dead is only a little more difficult than communication with some of the living.

Parents, you know, can be terrible.

Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching.

The winds were warm about us, the whole earth seemed the wealthier for our love.

He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease.

I go by the great republican principle, that the people will have the virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom [to the offices of government].

The most effective way to defeat patriarchy is to defy and disown its self-legitimating narrative.

She drowned in words that could not teach her how to swim.