"What science can there be more noble,..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.”

“He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.”

“Were the offer made true, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask should be the privilege of an author, to correct, in a second edition, certain errors of the first.”

“Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have had an arithmetical training, although they may derive no other advantage from it, always become much quicker than they would have been.”

“Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is an eternal uproar.”

“Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral world generally its action is perfectly null.”

“Common sense invents and constructs no less than its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the nature of common sense not to be aware of this situation.”

“Theory must mediate between all previous truths and certain new experiences”

“Qualities I sought in a scientific theory were naturalness, inner perfection and logical simplicity from an aesthetic approach.”