I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

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.

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

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.

If you're afraid to fail you'll never succeed

Maybe the moral of the legend is that we are all carved, created, and formed by a master hand. Maybe we are all works of art.

I always tell people I write songs, but I'm a writer. It's a difference. I can write songs to music, but I can write a story. I can see ideas spark in me.

Everyone just needs to get over themselves.

London audiences have this reputation for being a bit too cool for school.

You're on your own out there with ten mates.

Here's to the man Who owns the land That bears the grapes That makes the wine That tastes as good As this does.

When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up.

Anything that exists on the human palette is, from my point of view, fair game for artists to portray. You don't have to go see it if you don't want to, so don't go.

How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics?