I have never yet met a healthy person who worries very much about his health or a really good person who worries much about his own soul.

An attempt to study the evolution of living organisms without reference to cytology would be as futile as an account of stellar evolution which ignored spectroscopy.

Money can buy a fine dog but it is kindness that makes him wag his tail.

Capitalism, though it may not always give the scientific worker a living wage, will always protect him, as being one of the geese which produce golden eggs for its table.

This is my prediction for the future: Whatever hasn't happened will happen, and no one will be safe from it.

The aeroplane will never fly.

Teleology is like a mistress to a biologist: he cannot live without her but he's unwilling to be seen with her in public.

Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics.

Man armed with science is like a baby with a box of matches.

The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.

Christianity is haunted by the theory of a God with a craving for bloody sacrifices.

Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.

History is for human self-knowledge…the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.

An economist's definition of hatred is the willingness to pay a price to inflict harm on others.

I think people of lesser talent will become stars.

To realize the relative validity of one's convictions and yet stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civilized man from a barbarian.

An Englishman does not joke about such an important matter as a bet.

I love to make music, I love to get tattoos...That's just what I love. If I wasn't getting paid I'd still do it.

It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting.

A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation - and it's a solemn obligation - is to the rule of law.