In fact a favourite problem of [John Tyndall] is—Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He is confident that the Physics of the Future will solve this easily.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.

To a clear eye the smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen.

There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts.

Can any one deny that the old Israelites conceived Jahveh not only in the image of a man, but in that of a changeable, irritable, and, occasionally, violent man?

The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.

I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.

You asked me to go out with you. I know you probably changed your mind. But you should know, the answer was yes. It's always been yes when it comes to you.

Excellence is not an event but a habit.

Single minded vision gives the strength of purpose.

Insights, after all, come from the overlap between seemingly unrelated thoughts. They emerge when concepts are transposed, when the rules of one place are shifted to a new domain.

I don't worry about how accurately I convey my personality. I learned early on that it's almost impossible to accurately portray yourself.

The five million people who watch cable news are the political nation, the people who really care.

If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am constantly doing by being what I am.

It's time that we move from good words to good works, from sound bites to sound solutions.

A low view of law always produces legalism; a high view of law makes a person a seeker after grace.

An artist must be very careful not to look for models. As soon as one artist takes another as model, he is lost. There is no other point of departure than reality.