Are physical forces alone at work there, or has evolution begotten something more complex, something not akin to what we know on Earth as life? It is in this that lies the peculiar interest of Mars.

Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.

That Mars is inhabited by beings of some sort or other we may consider as certain as it is uncertain what these beings may be.

Formulae are the anaesthetics of thought, not its stimulants and to make any one think is far better worth while than cramming him with ill-considered, and therefore indigestible, learning.

War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation.

Now when we think that each of these stars is probably the centre of a solar system grander than our own, we cannot seriously take ourselves to be the only minds in it all.

The whole object of science is to synthesize, and so simplify; and did we but know the uttermost of a subject we could make it singularly clear.

You seem to think you have a choice, " Cam said. "But you have it backwards. Love chooses you. The shadow moves as the sun commands.

If you are trying to look clean, neat and avoid casting your nets in trouble waters, you will catch no fish.

You're trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought.

But now with young kids – there are so many more nerds.

There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.

Even pirates, before they attack another ship, hoist a black flag.

I don't think you need to sound like from where you're from. But I think there is something magical and powerful about encompassing something fully and singularly.

This record was supposed to come out in July already, but it just got delayed and delayed, so, well, I guess it was just coincidence.

When the exceptional historian comes along, you have a poet.

Once the fifth set comes, it's a matter of nerves.