It may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labour, I at last pull up.

The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.

There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.

When I came to know Mrs. Marcet personally; how often I cast my thoughts backward, delighting to connect the past and the present; how often, when sending a paper to her as a thank you offering, I thought of my first instructress.

I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.

A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.

Who would not have been laughed at if he had said in 1800 that metals could be extracted from their ores by electricity or that portraits could be drawn by chemistry.