Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that he has much to learn, but much also to unlearn.

Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.

...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we are never weary of admiring.

The stars are the land-marks of the universe.

The besetting evil of our age is the temptation to squander and dilute thought on a thousand different lines of inquiry.

Occurrences which according to received theories ought not to happen, are the facts which serve as clues to new discoveries

To the natural philosopher, there is no natural object unimportant or trifling. From the least of Nature's works he may learn the greatest lessons.

The barrier has begun to yield.

Geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to astronomy.

All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacred writings.

There is a pinciple in the heart of music which has yet to be discovered.

Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.

Dream extravagantly, for God has imbued us with ample imagination to dream out to and across the very periphery of the impossible.

Ensure that your daily chores, thought, actions, speeches and steps are taken with the purpose of giving you a good brand. Decide to be who God wanted you to be.

To change yourself, let go of what you are and accept what you want to be.

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.

Programming in Go is like being young again (but more productive!).

Intelligence is ten million rules.

He that will not have peace, God gives him warre. [He that will not have peace, God gives him war.]

We may not doubt that society in heaven consists mainly of undesirable persons.

And if unhappy in her love, her heart is like some fortress that has been captured, and sacked, and abandoned, and left desolate.