"I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me."

"My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone, on which the hi…"

"Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy of the interposition of a deity. More humble and I believe truer to consider him created from animals."

"The greatest discovery of all is that the world is not as we thought it was."

"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."