Of several bodies, all equally large and equally distant, that which is most brightly illuminated will appear to the eye nearest and largest.

The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

I love this site. It was lovingly hand-shaped it. Your soul transformed this into this art. It was perfect. I have tried to create another equal to it... but to no avail, so I will just have to paint the Sistine Chapel.

The light and heat of the universe comes from the sun, and its cold and darkness from the withdrawal of the sun.

Being engulfed in practice without delicate knowledge related to it, is in many ways like entering a ship without knowing where it is headed.

You should prefer a good scientist without literary abilities than a literate one without scientific skills

Truth was always but the daughter of time.