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

It would seem to me that I was committing a theft if I were to let one day go by without doing some work.

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

Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and who obeys it: ideal of art, ideal of science, ideal of the gospel virtues, therein lie the springs of great thoughts and great actions; they all reflect light from the Infinite.

There is no such thing as applied science, only the application of pure science.

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

Luck favors the mind that is prepared.