It is given to few to add the store of knowledge, to strike new springs of thought, or to shape new forms of beauty. But so sure as it is that men live not by bread, but by ideas, so sure is it that the future of the world lies in the hands of those who are able to carry the interpretation of nature a step further than their predecessors.

We are prone to see what lies behind our eyes, rather than what apprears before them.

Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

'Infidel' is a term of reproach, which Christians and Mohammedans, in their modesty, agree to apply to those who differ from them.

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

Action is the catalyst that creates accomplishments. It is the path that takes us from uncrafted hopes to realized dreams.

If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes.