Great love is born of great knowledge of the thing that is loved, and if you do not know it, you can love it little or not at all.

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

Experiment is the sole interpreter of the artifices of Nature.

Music cannot be called otherwise than the sister of painting, for she is dependent upon hearing, a sense second to sight, and her harmony is composed of the union of its proportional parts sounded simultaneously, rising and falling in one or more harmonic rhythms.

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 body of the earth is of the nature of a fish... because it draws water as its breath instead of air.

When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.