Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Things added to things, as statistics, civil history, are inventories. Things used as language are inexhaustibly attractive.

When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other a…

'Some credit him with saving more human lives than any other person in history.'

If Fermi had been born a few years earlier, one could well imagine him discovering Rutherford's atomic nucleus, and then developing Bohr's theory of the hydrog…

Think thou and act; to-morrow thou shalt die Outstretch'd in the sun's warmth upon the shore, Thou say'st: 'Man's measur'd path is all gone o'er: Up all his ye…