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.

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

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

Chance favors those who are prepared.

Whatever your career may be, do not let yourselves become tainted by a deprecating and barren scepticism.

Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.

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