Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists.

The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and of the oppressed.

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.

God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.

Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity.

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

Language is the alchemy of transforming a thought into a word, and the word into a new reality.

History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner.

In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

There's something about live recordings now that's too hi-fi.

Environmentally friendly cars will soon cease to be an option...they will become a necessity.

What is the beautiful, if not the impossible.

People have been predicting the death of television for 20 years now, and so far it's been entirely wrong. But it does seem viewership habits are starting to change.

There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.

I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewarding to me in terms of being able to move forward as a filmmaker.

Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or dark, seabeaten ships.