An atom must be at least as complex as a grand piano.

Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog his race.

A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions.

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.

No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.

When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.

All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.

To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances.

The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs.

He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart.

I can't understand God and I can't understand myself, so there's no chance in hell that I'm going to understand you!

Whatever the universal perspective one adopts, it is important to recognise that some form of universalism is politically and ethically necessary.

His life rushes onward in such torrential rhythm that...only angels and devils can catch the tempo of it.

I'm Creole, and I'm down to earth.

I do feel like there's a spirit and a tone you can set that lets people know that they're appreciated for being there. It's a sense of spirit that I think every film should have.

Life is so crowded with every day. It takes great effort to step aside and just watch and think.

I think anything emotional adds to your acting and singing, no matter what it is that you go through. It will always add to it, never take away.

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

The thing about life is, every time you learn a lesson, another is waiting right at the corner. You never know everything.

With whose imperfections will you bear, and what insult are you capable of enduring, if a thoughtless word from your own Superior is unbearable?