I don't believe any experiment until it is confirmed by theory. I find this is a witty inversion of "conventional" wisdom.

There once was a brainy baboon, Who always breathed down a bassoon, For he said, It appears That in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

The idea of a universal mind or Logos would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of scientific theory.

Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes.

The pursuit of truth in science transcends national boundaries. It takes us beyond hatred and anger and fear. It is the best of us.

You cannot disturb the tiniest petal of a flower without the troubling of a distant star.

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.

We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.

Do not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.

I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.

Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends, " says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it.

I would like to be like Rome when I am an old lady.

Those who know who one should die knew how one should live.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

There will be no sickness for the saint of God. ... If your body belongs to God, it does not and cannot belong to sickness.

I became a guy who wanted to be a comedian someday, or a comic actor. The way I put it was, I'll be like Danny Kaye. He was kind of the model I had in mind.

Just as Daniel Balalcazar said, it makes no sense to suffer in advance a misfortune that may never occur.

A cow peacefully grazing fifty yards away received one of the bullets in her back. She had nothing to do with the quarrel all the same.

The way the neurotic sees it: bars on his door mean that he's locked in; bars on your door mean that he's locked out.

If I had to choose one which best characterized the condition of being a political leader in Athens, the word would be "tension".