Russia is a name usurped by the Muscovites. They are not Slavs; they do not belong to the Indo-Germanic race at all, they are des intrus [intruders], who must be chased back across the Dnieper, etc.

The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the most prominent men of a ruled class, the more solid and dangerous its rule.

Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology.

Hazrat Mahal, Begum of Oudh, during the national liberation uprising of 1857-59 in India headed the rebels.

Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things.

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.