One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall.

The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.

All nations have present, or past, or future reasons for thinking themselves incomparable.

Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response to a minimal effort, so we shall be supplied with visual or auditory images, which will appear and disappear at a simple movement of the hand, hardly more than a sign.

The mere notion of photography, when we introduce it into our meditation on the genesis of historical knowledge and its true value, suggests the simple question: Could such and such a fact, as it is narrated here, have been photographed?