Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sides.

I came from a race of fishers; trout streams gurgled about the roots of my family tree.

Especially in the case of India and Pakistan, it's very clear that significant parts of the elites in both countries view having nuclear weapons as a ticket to prestige.

Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.

I am in love with this world. It has been my home. It has been my point of outlook into the universe. I have never bruised myself against it nor tried to use it ignobly.

The art of nature is all in the direction of concealment.

Science sees the process of evolution from the outside, as one might a train of cars going by, and resolves it into the physical and mechanical elements, without getting any nearer the reason of its going by, or the point of its departure or destination.