In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it.

If one were not animated with the desire to discover laws, they would escape the most enlightened attention.

We are perhaps not far removed from the time when we shall be able to submit the bulk of chemical phenomena to calculation.

At Arcueil ... I dined in distinguished company... There was a lot of very interesting discussion. It is these gatherings which are the joy of life.

Peace does not demand that everyone like or want the same reality.

Memory is the faculty of absolution. Men developed memories to ease their disquiet over things they did as men. The deep past is the only innocence and therefore necessary to retain.

It is only path bending. Don't let it be mind bending.

An advanced city is not a place where the poor move about in cars, rather it’s where even the rich use public transportation

There are more gluttons than drunkards in hell.

When I was filming 'The Haunting Hour', my co-stars Emily Osment, Brittany Curran and I paid a visit to a haunted house - all dressed up as vampires! We really confused the workers.

I'm from the South, where if you walk down the street and there's somebody behind you talking with a Southern accent, you can't tell whether it's a black or a white person.

I like to play with the conventions around what we expect of paintings historically. But I also like to play with the conventions that you expect from a Kehinde Wiley painting, too.

It's hard enough to get any movie made, and when you take on these tough genres - and I've done it a couple times - it just makes the whole struggle more.

You need demarcation." "Demarcation?" I asked. "It means a clear separation between two things," he told me. "A solid end before a clean beginning. No murky borders. Clarity.