Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man.
All creeds and opinions are nothing but the mere result of chance and temperament.
The general mental qualification necessary for scientific advancement is that which is usually denominated "common sense," though added to this, imagination, induction, and trained logic, either of common language or of mathematics, are important adjuncts.
The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well-prepared to receive them.
The person who thinks there can be any real conflict between science and religion must be either very young in science or very ignorant of religion.
The man of true genius never lives before his time, he never undertakes impossibilities, and always embarks on his enterprise at the suitable place and period. Though he may catch a glimpse of the coming light as it gilds the mountain top long before it reaches the eyes of his contemporaries, and he may hazard a prediction as to the future, he acts with the present.
Nothing but the infinite Pity is sufficient for the infinite pathos of human life.
I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later.
The user of the electric light - or a hammer, or a language, or a book - is the content. As such, there is a total metamorphosis of the user by the interface. It is the metamorphosis that I consider the message.
I take politics only medicinally, as a cure of occasional attacks of insomnia.
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.