Isn't this the perfect image of the noblest selflessness, and thereby presents an example and a model? It should be inspiring: like them, we are the units of a great social body, like them, we can serve and contemplate death with equanimity, subordinating our individual consciousness to collective consciousness.

Truth is different from error in two respects: it is a little harder to prove and more difficult to admit.

The paradox is the seed of truth. This germ just needs a fertile ground to flourish and bear fruit.

Pour réussir dans la science, il faut douter; pour réussir dans la vie, il faut être sûr. To succeed in science, one must doubt; to succeed in life, one must be sure.

What are we doing down here? We prepare the blossoms of tomorrow. We all manure future humanity.

La vérité est sur une courbe dont notre ésprit suit éternellement l'asymptote. Truth is on a curve whose asymptote our spirit follows eternally.

God is the mysterious veil under which we hide our ignorance of the cause.