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I am not so much a friend to the opinions of others, as to be fond of them, if I find them not agreeable to reason and experiment.

The structure of DNA is a double helix.

Science is the search for truth, the effort to understand the world, and the effort to understand ourselves.

The edifice of science requires not only a foundation, but also a roof, and the roof is the periodic law.

Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed.

A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread—and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness—Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!

I have been led to this by the desire to demonstrate to the people of Pisa, and to the whole world, the utility of the Indian method of calculation.

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

I think, therefore I am.

These monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

I have succeeded in proving that the general quintic equation cannot be solved by radicals.

The principal object of this work is to give a complete and rigorous exposition of the principles of the infinitesimal calculus.

I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which this margin is too narrow to contain.

We may say most aptly, that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns, just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.

Mathematics is entirely free in its development, and its concepts are only limited by the logical rules.

The heart has its reasons, which reason knows not of.

It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover.