Plato defines man "the hunter of truth," "for science is a chase, and in a chase the pursuit is always of greater value than the game." - Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

The intellect," says Aquinas, "commences in operation, and in operation it ends...

In life," as the great Pascal observes, "we always believe that we are seeking repose, while, in reality, all that we ever seek is agitation.

The discovery of the art of Printing unbarred afresh the gates of Heaven, and let in that flood of light, of knowledge, and of wisdom, which enabled men to emancipate themselves again from the slavery of superstition—to take their proper place in the ranks of created beings—and in ennobling themselves, in gradually exalting their understandings and amending their hearts, to pay at length the worthiest homage to the goodness of their common Parent, and prove themselves to be—as the Almighty himself originally formed them—inferior only to the Angels.