When all is said and done the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire the size of your dream and how you handle disappointment along the way.

Fashion is the science of appearances and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly how much more then in spiritual?

One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.

Fashion is the science of appearance and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

Nothing retains less of desire in art in science than this will to industry booty possession.

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods and that is the sincere desire to find out the truth whatever it may be.

Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger which he knows he was meant and made to do.