Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.

I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more than ten leagues.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

Not all those who wander are lost.

As you know, low demand and high supply means a drop in value of anything, including the dollar.

It’s never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the Chinese empire didn’t know much about each other and had no means of interacting. Now we have every continent able to reach every other.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

We are moving towards a world that is reordering itself and that may appear more ordered at some periods of time, but I see no sign that we are moving towards a world order in my definition of it – namely, a system which is accepted, which is internalized by the majority of the key participants.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

There’ll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

I think it’s brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I’ve ever seen is called television – but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?

I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.

Science is magic that works.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

It’s a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn’t support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, ‚Well, yeah,‘ but you start to think, ‚Why not, though?‘ What makes one more valuable than another?

It’s rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

I know that there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage – they like their plan and, most importantly, they value their relationship with their doctor.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

Old is authentic. Old is genuine. Old is valuable.

There are trees of a thousand sorts, and all have their several fruits; and I feel the most unhappy man in the world not to know them, for I am well assured that they are all valuable. I bring home specimens of them, and also of the land.

Good ideas are free – or at least they should be.

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the earth.

We must ensure that technology is accessible, affordable, and adds value.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

I believe that there are many herbs and many trees that are worth much in Europe for dyes and for medicines; but I do not know, and this causes me great sorrow. Arriving at this cape, I found the smell of the trees and flowers so delicious that it seemed the pleasantest thing in the world.

I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.

The product of mental labor – science – always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

We’ve switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics – trying to play a serious part in the world – to a culture that’s really entertainment-based.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn’t come here. Well, it can’t hide forever – one day we will overhear it.

I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.