Compassion is a weaker kind of mercy.
How strange: it always rains right when we're at the market or hanging out the laundry, and the most needed item is in the farthest pocket.
Where once were the frontiers of science is now its center.
What seems strange to us rarely remains unexplained.
The man in love with himself has an advantage - he does not have many competitors.
Loneliness must be sought in big cities.
A man's mind is to be judged by the care with which he considers the future or the result of his activity.
Doubt everything, even just once, and do not exclude the axiom that "two and two make four" from the process.
Why it shouldn't be an ideal maxim: Strive to find out the truth - this is always worthwhile, even if you go astray along the way.
To see something new, you have to do something new.
I know what attention looks like in the eyes of the world: it is the highest degree of nonsense.
I can't say for sure that everything will be better if it's different, but I can definitely say that everything has to be different if we want it to be better.
Inspiration is a young lady who has been violated too often.
Everything in nature is precise and mathematically determined; although we sometimes doubt this accuracy, our ignorance does not diminish it: even if everyone were to begin to doubt that two and two make four, two and two will still make four for all the skeptics.
Dare and defend your homeland bravely!
If I wanted to read without knowing the letters, it would be meaningless. It would be equally meaningless if I wanted to judge the phenomena of nature, without having any idea of the causes of things.
If you work and strive to do a good thing, after the effort ceases, the good remains. If you do an evil thing with pleasure, the evil remains after the pleasure is gone.
The journalist should not rush to reject a hypothesis. Hypotheses are the only way that remarkable people have been able to discover the most important truths.
The journalist must never give too much importance to his superiority, his authority, the value of his judgments. As the activity he performs is in itself unpleasant to the vanity of those upon whom it is exercised, the journalist would not be at all right if he were to consciously inconvenience them and cause them to point out his lack of foundation.
I do not consider it a sin to oppose even your father for the universal benefit and affirmation of science.
Sometimes procrastination means death.
Charles V, the emperor of the Romano-German empire, said that the Spanish language is suitable for speaking with God, the French language for speaking with friends, the German language for speaking with enemies, and the Italian language for speaking with the opposite sex . If he had known the Russian language, he would have understood that it is suitable for speaking with everyone, because it gathers in itself the splendor of the Spanish language, the vivacity of the French language, the sobriety of the German language, the tenderness of the Italian language, and, above all, the richness and brevity of languages Latin and Greek.
The beauty, majesty and power of the Russian language comes from old books. These books were written when there were no rules of composition. Our ancestors did not know these rules, nor did they think about the emergence of such rules.
He who reaches old age will suffer from the diseases caused by the luxury of youth, so we must beware of the abundant luxury of youth.
He who cannot do a small thing is not capable of great things.
Laziness is the beginning of all vices and an obstacle to development.
Love is strong like lightning, but it strikes unaccompanied by the rumble of thunder. Her strongest hits are enjoyable.
A dwarf is still a dwarf at the top of the mountain, and a titan is a titan at the bottom of the abyss.
Science is the clear knowledge of truth, the enlightenment of reason, an immaculate joy of life, the praise of youth, the support of old age, the foundation of cities, the fortress of success in times of hardship, an ornament in happy times, an indispensable faithful companion.
The mathematician who wants to measure the will of God with the compass is out of mind. So is the theologian who thinks he can learn from the Psalter what chemistry and physics are.