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

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

Bernard was right. The germ is nothing, the terrain is everything.

The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. Science brings men nearer to God.

I give them experiments and they respond with speeches.

Nothing is lost and nothing is created in the operations of art as those of nature.

After death, life reappears in a different form and with different laws. It is inscribed in the laws of the permanence of life on the surface of the earth and everything that has been a plant and an animal will be destroyed and transformed into a gaseous, volatile and mineral substance.