Change only favours minds that are diligently looking and preparing for discovery.

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.

Time is the best appraiser of scientific work, and I am aware that an industrial discovery rarely produces all its fruit in the hands of its first inventor.

Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and obeys it.

The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe.

To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery.