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.

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

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

Emptiness is like air. It floats around unseen but you know it's there.

Continents of memory had been lost.

Literature is the memory of humanity.

Design is about the betterment of our lives poetically, aesthetically, experientially, sensorially, and emotionally.

You can see the walls roar See your brains on the floor Become God Become cripple Become funky

The body image took a real battering. I had really not taken on board how I would feel dressed in a flimsy dress in front of millions of people.

Can you stand a little closer?" "Hmm?" "You smell good. I like to smell you.

I just think that we show an awful lot of deference to chefs in our culture and maybe not enough deference to customers.

[Allegory] is a flight by which the human wit attempts at one and the same time to investigate two objects, and consequently is fitted only to the most exalted geniuses.

Khaled Said was a young man just like me, and what happened to him could have happened to me.