Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural.

Prometheus, I have no Titan's might, Yet I, too, must each dusk renew my heart, For daytime's vulture talons tear apart The tender alcoves built by love at night.

Dullard: Someone who looks up a thing in the encyclopedia, turns directly to the entry, reads it, and then closes the book.

As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth.

Strong blasphemers thrive only when strong believers thrive.

Tomorrow changes the face of reality.

Everybody should fear only one person, and that person should be himself .

Resurrection, like politics, makes strange bedfellows.

The stars above will be below when man has Love.

Caught Beauty , held to light, now apes A good, now evil, thing the shifting sign And spectrum of archaic, psychic shapes.

Can imagination act Perpendicular to fact? Can it be a kite that flies Till the Earth , umbrella-wise, Folds and drops away from sight?

Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.

Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable; the other, who cries, makes it sacred.

Gone! And you and I quite crestfallen. It’s always like that, you can’t keep him; it’s not as if he were a tame lion.

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

I don't think I would've ever dared dreaming of becoming a professional cartoonist. I wouldn't set myself up for that disappointment.

Testimony requires the nurturing by the prayer of faith, the hungering for the word of God in the scriptures, and the obedience to the truth.

Of all ebriosity, who does not prefer to be intoxicated by the air he breathes?

Bored people looked for drama and caused trouble.

There's no denying the public's appetite for cosmic discovery.

We cannot interfere in one area of the ecosystem without paying due attention to both the consequences of such interference in other areas and to the well-being of future generations.