If The Soul Is Left In Darkness,

To Contemplate Is To Look At Shadows.

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.

His Judgement Demonstrates That One Can Be A Genius And Understand Nothing Of An Art That Is Not One's Own.

Men Like Me Are Impossible Until The Day When They Become Necessary.

Almost All Our Desires, When Examined, Contain Something Too Shameful To Reveal.