The truth belongs to those who seek it, not to those who claim to own it..

People still retain the errors of their childhood, their nation, and their age, long after they have accepted the truths needed to refute them..

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another for there will always be others whose lives on the face of it appear better. However ju….

[All phenomena] are equally susceptible of being calculated, and all that is necessary, to reduce the whole of nature to laws similar to those which ….

One wonders why there are so many women who follow Robespierre to his home, to the Jacobins, to the Cordeliers and to the Convention. It is because t….

Men do not often dare to avow, even to themselves, the slow progress reason has made in their minds; but they are ready to follow it if it is present….

As the mind learns to understand more complicated combinations of ideas, simpler formulae soon reduce their complexity; so truths that were discovere….

I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Congress of Scientists..

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another..

The penalty of death is the only one that makes an injustice absolutely irreparable; from which it follows that the existence of the death penalty im….

Under the freest constitution ignorant people are still slaves..

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.[or you will create disappointment and envy, as every other person has something, small….

If it is possible to have a linear unit that depends on no other quantity, it would seem natural to prefer it. Moreover, a mensural unit taken from t….

A great man, who was convinced that the truths of political and moral science are capable of the same certainty as those that form the system of phys….