One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.
From Alfred Nobel
The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father and me, and struck some on an anvil to show that only the part touched by the hammer exploded without spreading.
Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.
Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.
Justice is to be found only in imagination.
A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.
Contentment is the only real wealth.
Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.
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