Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions.

We have entered the cell, the Mansion of our birth, and started the inventory of our acquired wealth.

No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools.

As far as I remember, even younger than eight, I have always been guided by reason. Not cold reason, but that which leads to the truth, to the real, and to sane Justice.

My childhood dream was to study mechanical engineering. After reading 'The Mysterious Island' - which I read 25 times as a boy - I thought that was the best thing a person could do. The engineer in the book knows mechanics and physics, and he creates a whole way of life on the island out of nothing. I wanted to be like that.

France needs to improve training and education and the level of skills of its workforce.

I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college.

There was kind of a pivotal moment in my life in junior high school when my English teacher told me I should be a part of the public speaking competition.