The flavor of wine is like delicate poetry.

One does not ask of one who suffers: What is your country and what is your religion? One merely says: You suffer, that is enough for me.

Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers.

To bring one's self to believe in a truth that has just dawned upon one is the first step towards progress; to persuade others is the second.

Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of invention. ... [Do not] share the opinion of those narrow minds who disdain everything in science which has not an immediate application. ... A theoretical discovery has but the merit of its existence: it awakens hope, and that is all. But let it be cultivated, let it grow, and you will see what it will become.

Worship the spirit of criticism. If reduced to itself it is not an awakener of ideas or a stimulant to great things, but, without it, everything is fallible; it always has the last word.

Little science takes you away from God but more of it takes you to Him.