The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!
The elements, if arranged according to their atomic weights, exhibit an apparent periodicity of properties.
The most all penetrating spirit before which will open the possibility of tilting not tables, but planets, is the spirit of free human inquiry. Believe only in that.
Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.
I saw in a dream a table where all the elements fell into place as required. Awakening, I immediately wrote it down on a piece of paper.
Knowing how contented, free, and joyful is life in the world of science, one fervently wishes that many would enter its portals.
There exists everywhere a medium in things, determined by equilibrium.
If yet your blood does not rage, then it is water that flows in your veins. For what is the flush of youth, if it is not of service to the motherland.
I feel beautiful. I feel strong, and I feel confident in who I am.
I learned, viscerally, something that I knew intellectually: that I cannot protect my daughter from the difficulties as she may encounter in her search for her own identity, and that she will be OK. She has a sisterhood to share the experience with, in addition to her family.
Wolves eat coyotes," Gordon said[. . . ] If he weren't an old man, I had some rude things I could have said to that. "Yes," observed Adam blandly. "I do. " Yep. That was the one that came to mind. And he didn't even blush when he said it. Maybe Gordon would miss the double entendre. But he grinned cheerfully at Adam.