In Europe I have been accused of taking my scientific ideas from the Church. In America I have been called a heretic, because I will not let my church-going friends pat me on the head.

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.

The more I see as I sit here among the rocks, the more I wonder about what I am not seeing.

Focus on one thing and do not scatter your attention

Beer. It always seems like such a good idea at the time, doesn't it? What's worse is beer seems like an even better idea after you've had some beer.

Nobody needs to worry whether or not I've been tested.

I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, why they were coming to hear me, or what they needed to know.

Bruce Lee, before he fought, he would try to visualize how the fight would go, because he was visualizing a victorious path out of the combat.

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Probably the best thing that happened to me was going nuts. Nobody knew who I was until that happened.

Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?