It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.

There once was a brainy baboon, Who always breathed down a bassoon, For he said, It appears That in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

The idea of a universal mind or Logos would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of scientific theory.

Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes.

The pursuit of truth in science transcends national boundaries. It takes us beyond hatred and anger and fear. It is the best of us.

You cannot disturb the tiniest petal of a flower without the troubling of a distant star.

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.

We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.

Do not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.

I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.

We often end our journeys without beginning them. We learn about the world without knowing ourselves.

Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.

Any idol, regardless of its beauty or usefulness or original purpose, is to be set aside so that Christ might reign supreme, without a single competitor.

God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!

I dont have ulcers, I give them

Nostalgia is when you want things to stay the same. I know so many people staying in the same place.

I wish to God she had had an M-4 in her office.

I like the powerful story, the excellent performances the beautiful cinematography and the vision of the "The Piano".

Fed and electoral college could use some tinkering, but they are not the source of the problems.

Being on the ballot is a lot different than getting in.