I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.
Even in its third century, America is still the most meritocratic nation in the world.
Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.
The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.
On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they produce their familiar secondary radiation phenomena in the earth's atmosphere? can only be obtained from numerous measurements in the stratos...
In order to make further progress, particularly in the field of cosmic rays, it will be necessary to apply all our resources and apparatus simultaneously and side-by-side; an effort which has not yet been made, or at least, only to a limited extent.
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
To contemplate is to look at shadows.
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.
By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.
As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
