He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.
No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.
As yet, if a man has no feeling for art he is considered narrow-minded, but if he has no feeling for science this is considered quite normal. This is a fundamental weakness.
... the irregularities of the motion of Uranus...in order to find out whether they may be attributed to the action of an undiscovered planet beyond it. [John Couch Adams on how he began to discover Neptune.]
Arabic science throughout its golden age was inextricably linked to religion; indeed, it was driven by the need of early scholars to interpret the Qur'an.
My son, all my life I have loved this science so deeply that I can now hear my heart beat for joy. { .}
One thing I liked about being in microscopy is it gets you out of your box constantly because there's such a diverse range of applications.
Every new invention is like a baby. You think it may cure cancer or become the president, but in the end, you're happy it just stays out of jail.
Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.
Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.
Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.
Grace is sufficient even though we huff and puff with all our might to try and find something or someone that it cannot cover. Grace is enough.
Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?
If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.
He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.
I have a strange career. I know it because people come up to me, like colleagues, and say, 'Chris, you have a strange career.'
I think only an idiot can be an atheist. We must admit that there exists an incomprehensible power or force with limitless foresight and knowledge that started the whole universe going in the first place.
When X-rays traverse matter of any kind, this matter becomes a source of a radiation similar in character to that of the primary radiation falling upon it.
As an Englishman, permit me now to say with what pleasure I learnt of the election of Professor Planck and Professor Stark to the Nobel Prizes for the years 1918 and 1919.
When the Lord sent me forth into the world, He forbade me to put off my hat to any, high or low.
There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.
