Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.

We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness , of fear and pleasure; it's a little like making love, the physical act of love.

There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.

It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.

When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.

... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.