It must be observed that fishing with any living bait is to be condemned for the same reason as fishing with a worm: in all such instances we torture two animals at once for our amusement.

The nature of light is a subject of no material importance to the concerns of life or to the practice of the arts, but it is in many other respects extremely interesting.

When I was a boy, I thought myself a man. Now that I am a man, I find myself a boy.

Vision motivates, sustains and dispels doubt.

The experiments I am about to relate ... may be repeated with great ease, whenever the sun shines, and without any other apparatus than is at hand to every one.

Proposition IX. Radiant light consists in Undulations of the Luminiferous Ether.

Bacon first taught the world the true method of the study of nature, and rescued science from that barbarism in which the followers of Aristotle, by a too servile imitation of their master.

Proposition VIII. When two Undulations, from different Origins, coincide either perfectly or very nearly in Direction, their joint effect is a Combination of the Motions belonging to each.

As Irving Good realised in 1965, machines with superhuman intelligence could repeatedly improve their design even further, triggering what Vernor Vinge called a 'singularity.'

Lost luggage is just an opportunity to start afresh.

Ordinary people have extraordinary love.

I don't know if this makes me a bad person or whatever, but it's hard for me to get interested in other people's vacations.

And so that is the question I leave you with in this final: What is your cause for hope?

The end of all being is the glory of God.

The future is a choice between Utopia and oblivion.

My life is like the summer rose That opens to the morning sky, But ere the shades of evening close Is scattered on the ground - to die.

Chefs work with food, artists with oil paint, programmers with code.

I did not have to dream I made it a reality.