Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things..

Insight into universal nature provides an intellectual delight and sense of freedom that no blows of fate and no evil can destroy..

It is a proverbial expression that every man is the maker of his own fortune, and we usually regard it as implying that every man by his folly or wis….

Petroleum is the product of a distillation from great depth and issues from the primitive rocks beneath which the forces of all volcanic action lie..

Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. Wherever one notices them, they constitute a sign of ignorance a….

Die gefährlichste Weltanschauung ist die Weltanschauung derer, die die Welt nie angeschaut haben. (The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of t….

Time is the most important thing in human life, for what is pleasure after the departure of time? and the most consolatory, since pain, when pain has….

Statistical projections which speak to the senses without fatiguing the mind, possess the advantage of fixing the attention on a great number of impo….

Collaboration operates through a process in which the successful intellectual achievements of one person arouse the intellectual passions and enthusi….

There are some races more cultured and advanced and ennobled by education than others; but there are no races nobler than others. All are equally des….

The most powerful influence exercised by the Arabs on general natural physics was that directed to the advances of chemistry ; a science for which th….

Mere communion with nature, mere contact with the free air, exercise a soothing yet comforting and strengthening influence on the wearied mind, calm ….

The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness..

People often say that I'm curious about too many things at once... But can you really forbid a man from harbouring a desire to know and embrace every….

At no other time has Nature concentrated such a wealth of valuable nourishment into such a small space as in the cocoa bean..

Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people..

Before being free, it is necessary to be just.