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

My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

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.

When one works and imagines and dreams of nothing else than the search for answers that God has posed, it is difficult to be so still.

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.

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

One must not assume that an understanding of science is present in those who borrow the language