Occurrences which according to received theories ought not to happen, are the facts which serve as clues to new discoveries

The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented.

There is a pinciple in the heart of music which has yet to be discovered.

According to this view of the matter, there is nothing casual in the formation of Metamorphic Rocks. All strata, once buried deep enough, (and due TIME allowed!!!) must assume that state,-none can escape. All records of former worlds must ultimately perish.

[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can take a commanding view, though but of a small part of its plan, we never fail to recognize that sublime simplicity on which the mind rests satisfied that it has attained the truth.

The besetting evil of our age is the temptation to squander and dilute thought on a thousand different lines of inquiry.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe