Everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious.

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.

The purpose creates the machine.

There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one; yet very little between a good one and none at all.

Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out.

The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God.

The magic of property turns sand to gold.

Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.

The self in a toroidal Universe can be both separate and connected with everything else.

There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one yet very little between a good one and none at all.

From a rat hole you can go to the stars or from the stars you can go to a rat hole! Your destiny is open to every possibility!

Were the stars against him? A woman's fingers are quicker in the sky and shine more brightly.

But I would not feel so all alone, everybody must get stoned.

Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new; it alone can give us certainty.

My twerking skills are for the bedroom, not for the club.

Honesty is the precondition for genuine scientific and scholarly work.

I cant sprinkle sprinkles on. I lose control when I have sprinkles. Im shaky. I still remember the great sprinkle accident of 1982.

I do think I might scare some guys, because I'm like, 'I want to change the world! I have dreams! What do you want to do?' But I only know how to be me.

It has always been Oscar Peterson. He is my Rachmaninoff.

beware of your most implacable enemy-yourself.