In the moment of appreciation we live again the moment when the creator saw and held the hidden likeness.

The men who made the Industrial Revolution are usually pictured as hardfaced businessmen with no other motive than self-interest. That is certainly wrong. For one thing, many of them were inventors who had come into business that way.

Nations in their great ages have not been great in art or science, but in art and science.

You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.

Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind that underlies a culture.

The great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself recreates them.

To me the most interesting thing about man is that he is an animal who practices art and science and in every known society practices both together.