Do not say hypothesis, and even less theory: say way of thinking.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.

Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.

Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Some people come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede -- not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above 14.