There are some races more cultured and advanced and ennobled by education than others; but there are no races nobler than others. All are equally destined for freedom.

Die gefährlichste Weltanschauung ist die Weltanschauung derer, die die Welt nie angeschaut haben. (The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world)

People often say that I'm curious about too many things at once... But can you really forbid a man from harbouring a desire to know and embrace everything that surrounds him?

Before being free, it is necessary to be just

Collaboration operates through a process in which the successful intellectual achievements of one person arouse the intellectual passions and enthusiasms of others.

At no other time has Nature concentrated such a wealth of valuable nourishment into such a small space as in the cocoa bean.

Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.

Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people.

Statistical projections which speak to the senses without fatiguing the mind, possess the advantage of fixing the attention on a great number of important facts.

The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.

Petroleum is the product of a distillation from great depth and issues from the primitive rocks beneath which the forces of all volcanic action lie.

You know how when people lose their grandma or grandpa, people they say they're sorry? They do mean it, but... there's nothing to say. There's a void that cannot be filled.

Most of the time I meet my trainer at the gym and we do a lot of everything: weights circuit with cardio, football drills, sprinting with weights on the treadmill.

Be prepared mentally for some amount of chaos and failure. Waste and frustration often attend the earliest stages.

Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.

Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. If all economists were laid end to end they would not reach a conclusion.

But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress.

Enjoyment of football is part of the social context, and I have lost my faith in this social context.

Giving your team cover for their cowardice is foolish. Give them a platform for bravery instead.

To express gratitude is gracious and honorable, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live with gratitude ever in our hearts is to touch heaven.

A babe, by intercourse of touch I held mute dialogues with my Mother's heart.