A mind which has once imbibed a taste for scientific inquiry, and has learnt the habit of applying its principles readily to the cases which occur, has within itself an inexhaustible source of pure and exciting contemplations.

A mind which has once imbibed a taste for scientific inquiry, and has learnt the habit of applying its principles readily to the cases which occur, has within itself an inexhaustible source of pure and exciting contemplations.

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

The stars are the land-marks of the universe.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The barrier has begun to yield.