This noble body, equipped with everything necessary, almost to the point of bursting, also appeared to carry freedom around with it.

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

His biggest misgiving came from his concern about the loud crash that was bound to occur and would probably create, if not terror, at least anxiety behind all the doors. But that would have to be risked.

To write prescriptions is easy, but to come to an understanding with people is hard.

Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be a discovery; it dissolves into the whole and disappears, and one must have a trained scientific eye even to recognize it after that.

We need the books that affect us like a disaster

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.