Man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.

Whenever I found something remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people be informed thereof.

In the year 1657 I discovered very small living creatures in rain water.

I've spent more time than many will believe [making microscopic observations], but I've done them with joy, and I've taken no notice those who have said why take so much trouble and what good is it?

How inscrutable and incomprehensible are the hidden works of Nature!

Juliet, the dice were loaded from the start. / When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?

A stale mind is the devil's breadbox.

Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence?

The telling of a good story, especially one that is real and true, is always exciting.

I'm always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!

The third peculiarity of aerial warfare was that it was at once enormously destructive and entirely indecisive.

It is hard to know how many people do, but given that the people are so docile towards the rulers, nowadays, very few Americans show the passion for freedom that our forefathers had.

Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness and nearness, movement and rest.

The roughest and toughest fighter I fought was Joe Frazier

Service is the ultimate edge. Keep it sharp.