All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired so long...
Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find but symmetrical men...
The search after the great men is the dream of youth and the most serious...
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
I spend a good portion of my dinner-party conversation defending America because no matter what the political agenda it's still a fantastic amazing place.