If it is love that makes the world go round, it is self-induction that makes electromagnetic waves go round the world.

Why should I refuse a good dinner simply because I don't understand the digestive processes involved?

Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion?

The best result of mathematics is to be able to do without it.

Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse.

Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on.

...there is no absolute scale of size in nature, and the small may be as important, or more so than the great.

Euclid for children is barbarous.

Logic can be patient, for it is eternal.

Waves from moving sources: Adagio. Andante. Allegro moderato.

However absurd it may seem, I do in all seriousness hereby declare that I am animated mainly by philanthropic motives. I desire to do good to my fellow creatures, even to the Cui bonos.

Her works are said to be too far from reality to be considered real literature. “Why doesn’t she write about life?” the people of Rabbit Back ask.

The Holy Spirit . . . wants to flow through us and realize all these wonderful possibilities in the world - if we only open ourselves and allow it to happen.

The gun is not out of Irish politics.

If hard work, integrity, thrift, and perseverance have caused you to succeed, then you don't owe anyone an apology for winning.

If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places.

A nation without a religion - that is like a man without breath.

It takes nothing to encourage an artist.

The end goal of all of this striving is to live joyfully, and that there are often more direct ways of achieving this than conforming to rigid standards set by social custom.

Victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

The less the thought of the body, the better. For it is the body that drags us down.