Angelina Jolie seems like she cries a lot, which puts me off.
The originator of a new concept. . . finds, as a rule, that it is much more difficult to find out why other people do not understand him, than it was to discover the new truth.
All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the action of natural and moral forces.
Music stands in a much closer connection with pure sensation than any of the other arts.
When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced himself, by counting his pulse, that the duration of the oscillations was independent of the arc through which it moved, who could know that this discovery would eventually put it in our power, by means of the pendulum, to attain an accuracy in the measurement of time till then deemed impossible, and would enable the storm-tossed seaman in the most distant oceans to determine in what degree of longitude he was sailing?
Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.
The quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished.
I just think that you have to believe in yourself and you have to work very hard. You can't ever think that you're the best thing since sliced bread because I promise you, there are going to be Viola Davises and Jessica Chastains and Emma Stones who are the best thing since sliced bread. So take it seriously, but don't take it too seriously.
Look, this is an odd question, but you're kind of cute and you're pretty nice to me. Are you drunk? It's OK if you are.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.
Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69.