There is no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end.

The result, therefore, of this physical enquiry is that we find no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end.

[It] is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.

In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires.

The globe of this earth … [is] … not just a machine but also a organised body as it has a regenerative power.

Error, never can be consistent, nor can truth fail of having support from the accurate examination of every circumstance.

With such wisdom has nature ordered things in the economy of this world, that the destruction of one continent is not brought about without the renovation of the earth in the production of another.

Humankind spends so much time admiring and ritualizing the inventions of humankind! And yet humankind is such a tiny part of all there is. -- Nigel S. Hey, Wonderment(Matador, 2012)

Laurels grow in the Bay of Biscay, I hope a bed of them may be found in the Mediterranean.

The size of General Motors is in the service not of monopoly or the economies of scale but of planning.

Change your mind about something significant every day.

Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of both.

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

I try to put all I am as a person into what I do. My intelligence, my emotion. I've done that in everything.

It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.