If human beings could be propagated by cutting, like apple trees, aristocracy would be biologically sound.

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.

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.

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.

Reality is the cage of those who lack imagination.

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.

Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.

History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.

She looks so broken, I don't want to hurt her more.

Live today for what is going to matter 10 billion years from today.

Everybody's talking about ministers, sinisters, banisters, and canisters, bishops, fishops, rabbis, and popeyes, bye-bye, bye-byes.

Life, when is spent well, is long.

what is life worth if one has nothing to give away? This lack, it seems to me, must be the sharpest pang of poverty.

As actors, we react to the material that's out there, and I probably just react more strongly to things that I feel will have some social value.

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.

Ricky was "L" but he's home with the flu, Lizzie, our "O," had some homework to do, Mitchell, "E" prob'ly got lost on the way, So I'm all of the love that could make it today.

When we turn pro we stop running from our fears. We turn around and face them.