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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The more we see ourselves as a vibrant, successful, inspiring person who boldly declares and manifests her vision, the more we become just that.

The only real recourse that [Russian] people had against tsarist rule was violence and rebellion. It was once remarked that Russia's constitution was "absolutism moderated by assassination.

Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.

If you think the most courageous and difficult thing you can do is stubbornly stand your ground, try graciously giving in.

I try to walk around without being noticed but I can’t help attracting attention with my pink Mohawk, black clothing and steel toes, and often I’m with Holly and we’re both tall and arrogant.

August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly included between its pages.

Every war is a war against children.

Strange as it may seem, there is nothing in which a young and beautiful female appears to more advantage than in the art of smoking.

The tree falls not at the first stroke.

I have frequently stated that I regard chess as an art form, where creativity prevails over other factors.