Arranging is the way I put my stamp on my music as much as my guitar playing.
So great was the preference given to sacred over profane learning that Christianity had been in existence fifteen hundred years, and had not produced a single astronomer.
Four years after the death of Justinian, A. D. 569, was born at Mecca, in Arabia the man who, of all men exercised the greatest influence upon the human race. . . Mohammed. . .
Science has never sought to ally herself with civil power. She has never subjected anyone to mental torment, physical torment, least of all death, for the purpose of promoting her ideas.
Every movement in the skies or upon the earth proclaims to us that the universe is under government.
Over events, we may have some control, but over the law of life's progress none.
The scientific study of Nature tends not only to correct and ennoble the intellectual conceptions of man; it serves also to ameliorate his physical condition.
There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it. So should we
I couldn't stand living in a society that admires the emperor's new clothes, when I see so clearly that he is naked.
I cannot live without flowers everywhere. I grew up having a big garden, the size of a city block, in Rombas.
My work is about helping humanity.