I've always been on the side of science that tries to help man. I play an active part with the foundations I'm involved in. Science gives hope.
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
Truths kindle light for truths.
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true. This terror therefore and darkness of mind must be dispelled not by the rays of the sun and glittering shafts of day, but by the aspect and law of nature.
. . . Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
There is no common understanding, and no community life. But in a shared activity, each person refers what he is doing to what the other is doing and vice-versa.
Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it.
I'll tell you one thing, they [my kids] all do love to hunt and fish. When they get together, I think that's what they get together more for than anything else.
It felt like a new day.