Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries.

The logical feebleness of science is not sufficiently borne in mind. It keeps down the weed of superstition, not by logic but by slowly rendering the mental soil unfit for its cultivation.

His [Faraday's] third great discovery is the Magnetization of Light, which I should liken to the Weisshorn among mountains-high, beautiful, and alone.

... though he [Michael Faraday] took no cities, he captivated all hearts.

To him [Faraday], as to all true philosophers, the main value of a fact was its position and suggestiveness in the general sequence of scientific truth.

Taking him for all and all, I think it will be conceded that Michael Faraday was the greatest experimental philosopher the world has ever seen.

In the firmament of science Mayer and Joule constitute a double star, the light of each being in a certain sense complementary to that of the other.

People cannot handle prejudice because they try to deal with the symptom. Prejudice is the symptom, wrong assumptions are the cause.'Prejudice is the daughter of assumption.

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.

In the Sanghi family, there is no one who has undertaken intellectual pursuits.

St. Thomas is really a great man quite apart from his saintliness.

There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of the origins of the First World War.

Girls begin to have second thoughts about the violence. Studies show they feel a considerable amount of guilt about it. They feel bad later and want to apologize.

We are in the 21st century; what are the kings or the queens doing in this century? They must remain in the past!

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

It doesn't much concern me if Tiger plays in the tournament or no.