Although I loved working on technology - I've always been a computer geek at heart - my professors encouraged me to get a real-world job working with customers.
So much the worse, it may be, for a particular meeting: but the meeting is the individual, which on evolution principles, must be sacrificed for the development of the race.
It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.
In many cases of inflammation, the vascular changes develop slowly and long after the application of the stimulus which is responsible for the inflammatory reaction.
In many organisms, including man, the mechanical respiration and the circulation of the blood are 'regulated' so as to correspond to the demand of the moment.
A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world
Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter.
Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity.
I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reach my goal.
I don't believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himself into thinking he had a proof.
I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.
Whales are killed today to supply the limited demand for whale meat or to be used in pet foods or as fodder for fur-bearing animals used in the fur trade.
There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don't pet her for 10 minutes she'll bother you for six hours.