“Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of; they just turn up some of the ill weeds on to the surface”

“To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.”

“Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.”

“It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head”

“The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.”

“We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.”