Activity Quote by Lytton Strachey

I must give you a piece of intelligence that you perhaps already know, namely that the ungodly arch-villain Voltaire has died miserably like a…

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Voltaire made up his mind to destroy the superstition of his time. He fought with every weapon that genius could devise or use. He…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“He’s over your head!” He was, but naturally I’d flung myself into the Sea of Voltaire anyway and emerged with nothing more than several…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Voltaire exclaims: ‘Oh metaphysics! We have come precisely as far as in the time of the early Druids.’c But what other science has always…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“These researches renewed his commitment to analysis, which he now conceived more as a means to produce personal growth than as a technique for…

— Anthony Stevens

Pascal and Voltaire both probably had IQs in the neighborhood of 200.

— Paul Popenoe

“His lack of reverence for authority and his willingness to challenge received wisdom would lead him to craft an empirical approach for understanding nature…

— Walter Isaacson

The age-long history of thinking on gravitation, too, was erased from the collective consciousness, and that force somehow became the serendipitous child of Newton's…

— Lucio Russo

“It had belonged to that idea of the exasperated consciousness of his victim to become a real test for him; since he had quite…

— Henry James

“Who would not have been laughed at if he had said in 1800 that metals could be extracted from their ores by electricity or…

— Michael Faraday

That strange premature genius Chatterton has couched in one line the quintessence of what Voltaire has said in many pages: "Reason, a thorn in…

— Horace Walpole

There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It…

— Francis Darwin