"Thus the human element in the Old Testament is seen to be quite considerable. It is not difficult to understand why f…"

"There is no compulsion for man to accept the truth. But it is certainly a shame upon the human intellect when man is …"

"I wanted to make it quite clear in the very beginning that even before I learnt the first letter of Bismillah, I was …"

"Les hommes font les lois. Les femmes font les mœurs."

"The standing armies, while a burden on the people, are inadequate for the achievement of great and decisive results i…"

"Le désir de s'enrichir est leur passion dominante, et à vrai dire leur seule passion."

"Science does not aim to cover exhaustively the whole of reality, but to construct systems and concepts which will per…"

"Although Champollion was an avowed revolutionary and an enthusiastic Bonapartist, one of his earliest discoveries dis…"

"The well-informed surgeon must not consider it an unnecessary condescension to occupy himself with cares which the vu…"

"He was an excellent observer and a great worker, who knew how to adopt and adapt others' ideas very practically."