But regular biology, as an "ology," has to be "scientific," and this means in practice that it has to be made dull.... Everything has to be expressed in utterly impersonal terms.

Education, like everything else, goes in fads, and has the normal human tendency to put up with something bad for just so long, and then rush to the other extreme.

There's many a true word spoken in jest; scientists are abominably solemn; therefore scientists miss many a true word.

Psychologists pay lip service to the scientific method, and use it whenever it is convenient; but when it isn't they make wild leaps of their uncontrolled fancy.

Physical scientists probably deserve the reputation they enjoy for incorruptibility and unswerving devotion to pure truth. The reason for this is that it is not worth while to bribe them.

Physicists, being in no way different from the rest of the population, have short memories for what is inconvenient.

Such instances of the almost infinite unpredictability of man are known to social scientists, but they are no more affected by them than the asylum inmate is by being told that he is not Napoleon.

Psychologists, like other scientists, pride themselves on being extremely modern, and therefore much better than any group of people that ever were before.

Insight is not the same as scientific deduction, but even at that it may be more reliable than statistics.

The dreadful cocksureness that is characteristic of scientists in bulk is not only quite foreign to the spirit of true science, it is not even justified by a superficial view.

[Scientists] define these [terms] in tight phrases which convey a meaning only to those who already understand it.

Forgiveness leads to healing of wounds and restoration health.

When we teach people to run after miracles, we make them shallow men.

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.

Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes.

Happiness to me is simply not being unhappy.

Everything also calms down with the influx of social media, there's so much happening all the time.

It was a dream to arrive at Liverpool but I never wanted to just settle for what I had achieved. I wanted more.

The chair as ideas fits only the bottom as idea.

The real object of the drama is the exhibition of human character.