If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.

I never met a man so unknowledgeable, I could not learn something from him.

In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Eppur si muove

With whisper of her mellowing grain, With treble of brook and bud and tree, Earth joys for ever to sustain The bass eternal of the sea.

'I think the Moon is a world like this one, and the Earth is its moon.' My friends greeted this with a burst of laughter. 'And maybe,' I told them, 'someone on…

Each strand of her hair Is really insect eyes And each hole in her tongue Is always occupied By the milk of the sun