"Bad times have a scientific value. These..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.”

“Truth is beautiful within and without, forevermore.”

“People say law but they mean wealth.”

“Adversity does not make us frail; it only shows us how frail we are.”

“You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.”

“Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.”

“Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.”

“Probe the universe in a myriad of points. ... He is a wise man who has taken many views; to whom stones and plants and animals and a myriad of objects have each suggesting something, contributed something.”

“But in physics I soon learned to scent out the paths that led to the depths, and to disregard everything else, all the many things that clutter up the mind, and divert it from the essential. The hitch in this was, of course, the fact that one had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examination, whether one liked it or not.”