How is it that the Church produced no geometer in her autocratic reign of twelve hundred years?

Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born at Mecca, in Arabia the man who, of all men exercised the greatest influence upon the human race . . . Mohammed . . .

Every movement in the skies or upon the earth proclaims to us that the universe is under government.

Science has never sought to ally herself with civil power. She has never subjected anyone to mental torment, physical torment, least of all death, for the purpose of promoting her ideas.

Over events, we may have some control, but over the law of life's progress none.

The scientific study of Nature tends not only to correct and ennoble the intellectual conceptions of man; it serves also to ameliorate his physical condition.

Time, to the nation as to the individual, is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.

So great was the preference given to sacred over profane learning that Christianity had been in existence fifteen hundred years, and had not produced a single astronomer.

Is it not true that for every person the course of life is along the line of least resistance, and that in this the movement of humanity is like the movement of material bodies?

The power of the mind is the strength of being.

At any given point, the chain of a stagnant life can be completely broken, but not with the same mental attitude that placed one in it.

No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying.

It's not easy to part with the trophies. However, I do need to have some long-term financial security for those close to me.

Tomorrow could not get better if one failed to survive today.

Passion is the great slayer of adversity. Focus on strengths and what you enjoy.

Marriage and the up-bringing of children in the home require as well-trained a mind and as well-disciplined a character as any other occupation that might be considered a career.

Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless.

If it were now to die, 'twere now to be most happy.

The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.