According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. I have heard, however, that some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to pay homage to her, have seen their own image and adored it instead.
Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.
I can no longer laugh at ignorance or stupidity. Those are our chief enemies, and it is dangerous to make fun of them.
It is a common remark that men talk most who think least; just as frogs cease their quacking when a light is brought to the water-side.
Logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.
My main point today is that usually one gets what one expects, but very rarely in the way one expected it.
No joy in nature is so sublimely affecting as the joy of a mother at the good fortune of a child.
Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field.
Only fools, liars, and charlatans predict earthquakes.
Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time.
Remembrance is the only paradise out of which we cannot be driven away.
Spring makes everything young again except man.
There is nothing more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face, and among country people it is always a sign of a well-regulated life.
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