My Greatness Does Not Extend

The Soul Has Greater Need Of The Ideal Than Of The Real

Because A Fact Seems Strange To You, You Conclude That It Is Not One. ... All Science, However, Commences By Being Strange. Science Is Successive. It Goes From One Wonder To Another. It Mounts By A Ladder. The Science Of To-day Would Seem Extravagant To The Science Of A Former Time. Ptolemy Would Believe Newton Mad.

To Think Of Shadows Is A Serious Thing.

Every Step Which The Intelligence Of Europe Has Taken Has Been In Spite Of The Clerical Party.

The Miserable's Name Is Man; He Is Agonizing In All Climes, And He Is Groaning In All Languages.