The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid.
THE SLOW ARROW OF BEAUTY. The noblest kind of beauty is that which does not transport us suddenly, which does not make stormy and intoxicating impressions such a kind easily arouses disgust but that which slowly filters into our minds.
No man is smart, except by comparison to those who know less
We are aware that it is said, that woman is virtually represented in Parliament, her interests being the same as those of man; but the many laws, which have been obliged to be passed to protect them from their nearest male relatives, are a sufficient answer. . . They are evidently the production of men legislating for their own most obvious interest. . . without the slightest reference to the injustice they were committing against women.
No one doubts but that we imagine time from the very fact that we imagine other bodies to be moved slower or faster or equally fast. We are accustomed to determine duration by the aid of some measure of motion.
Be naked in the splendor of the truth of who you are.
Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.
I discovered that in life, one has got to serve to be observed, if one serve not, one will probably be reserved. Don't wisdom teach this?
Any two particles in the universe attract each other through the gravitational interaction.
'But surely "blind" is just how you would describe men who have no true knowledge of reality, and no clear standard in their mind to refer to, as a painter refers to his model, and which they can study closely before they start laying down rules about what is fair or right or good where they are needed, or maintaining, as Guardians, any rules that already exist. ' 'Yes, blind is just about what they are'
I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.
The world is not full of evil because of those who do wrong. It is full of evil because of those who do nothing.
When a mathematician engaged in investigating physical actions and results has arrived at his own conclusions, may they not be expressed in common language as fully, clearly, and definitely as in mathematical formulae? If so, would it not be a great boon to such as well to express them so -- translating them out of their hieroglyphics that we might also work upon them by experiment?
Extending over more than a century and including most nations of the globe, the cause of woman suffrage has been one of the great democratic forces in human history.
The most sure, but at the same time the most difficult expedient to mend the morals of the people, is a perfect system of education.
The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.
We owed so much to Herbert's ever cheerful industry and readiness, that I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea of his inaptitude, until I was one day enlightened by the reflection, that perhaps the inaptitude had never been in him at all, but had been in me.
Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.
The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.
The solution to your problem is to see who has it.