Veni, Vidi, Vici.
If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development.
The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition.
"Let them call me a rebel and welcome it. Fore I feel no concern from it; but I should suffer the misery of devils were I to make a whore of my soul"
You can't rewrite history. Not one line!
Like everyone else I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings; a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, all of which I am the sum total.
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.
There's a good reason why nobody studies history. It just teaches you too much.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.