Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest.

Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with the awareness that everything, in some way, connects to everything else.

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

The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee...gathers its materials from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.

A wave is never found alone, but is mingled with as many other waves as there are uneven places in the object where the said wave is produced.

Sculptured figures which appear in motion, will, in their standing position, actually look as if they were falling forward.

To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms, and you will achieve the desired effect