Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law.

The glacier was God's great plough . . . set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth?

Study nature not books

The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money

The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into the common life of the world.

Nature brings us back to absolute truth whenever we wander.

Every great scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.

It is the job of prophets and scientists alike to proclaim the glories of God.

I sometimes hear preachers speak of the sad condition of men who live without God in the world, but a scientist who lives without God in the world seems to me worse off than ordinary men.

A laboratory of natural history is a sanctuary where nothing profane should be tolerated. I feel less agony at improprieties in churches than in a scientific laboratory.

I don't deserve this but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.

Beta decay was... like a dear old friend. There would always be a special place in my heart reserved especially for it.

I learned early in life that to laugh before breakfast was to cry before dinner.

It is an oversimplification to say that the opposite of irony is oversimplification.

The World is insane. With tiny spots of sanity, here and there... Not the other way around!

In the society of illusion, reality must manifest itself. The story songs of Joel Rafael are that manifestation... the essence of minstrel.

To ask may be but a moment's shame, not to ask and remain ignorant is a lifelong shame.

Work harder than anyone you know, and be lucky enough to be blessed with the genetics it takes.

Most of the great problems we face are caused by politicians creating solutions to problems they created in the first place.

Not everybody can do the comic book adaptation thing and make it believable. It is challenging.