Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War...

Imagination should give wings to our thoughts but we always need decisive experimental proof, and when the moment comes to draw conclusions and to interpret the gathered observations, imagination must be checked and documented by the factual results of the experiment.

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

I have the faith of a Breton peasant and by the time I die I hope to have the faith of a Breton peasant's wife.

These are the living springs of great thoughts and great actions. Everything grows clear in the reflections from the Infinite.

If science has no country, the scientist should have one, and ascribe to it the influence which his works may have in this world.

In that memorable year, 1822: Oersted, a Danish physicist, held in his hands a piece of copper wire, joined by its extremities to the two poles of a Volta pile. On his table was a magnetized needle on its pivot, and he suddenly saw (by chance you will say, but chance only favours the mind which is prepared) the needle move and take up a position quite different from the one assigned to it by terrestrial magnetism. A wire carrying an electric current deviates a magnetized needle from its position. That, gentlemen, was the birth of the modern telegraph.