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Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Allah given To lift from earth our low desire.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young men, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation.
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head.
When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news.
If you keep on doing what you've always done, you'll keep on getting what you've always got.
In Louisiana we don't bet on football games…We bet on whether a politician is going to be indicted or not.
As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.
She wore a short skirt and a tight sweater and her figure described a set of parabolas that could cause cardiac arrest in a yak.
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.
Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for insects as well as for the stars. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
