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— Joel Garreau"Informing all of Carson's work was the idea that although human beings are part of nature, we are distinguished by our power to alter it irreversibly."
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Gases are distinguished from other forms of matter, not only by their power of indefinite expansion so as to fill any vessel, however large, and by the great effect heat has in dilating them, but by the uniformity and simplicity of the laws which regulate these changes.
— James Clerk Maxwell
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Brains and character rule the world. The most distinguished Frenchman of the last century said: Men succeed less by their talents than their character. There were scores of men a hundred years ago who had more intellect than Washington. He outlives and overrides them all by the influence of his character.
— Wendell Phillips
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