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.

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.

A laboratory of natural history is a sanctuary where nothing profane should be tolerated. I feel less agony at improprieties in churches than in a scientific laboratory.

I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

Be loyal to those who are loyal to you. And respect everyone, even your enemies and competition.

What right had they to make me suffer like that?

I will say, as a woman, when you put a mustache on, you find out a lot of things about yourself.

The cheesecake was smooth and lush, with the personality of a warm and well-to-do uncle who knows a hundred dirty jokes and will die of sexual exertions in the arms of his mistress.

The art of using moderate abilities to advantage often brings greater results than actual brilliance

It's a great day in America when white people, black people and Latinos can all come together and pick on another minority.

Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation.

The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.