It is the job of prophets and scientists alike to proclaim the glories of God.

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.

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.

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.

Alanna: All I know is that I'm to jump when I'm told and I have no free time.

Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand. Three more days to get through until I don't have to worry about life anymore.

Social media is about connecting with people, not collecting people.

I don’t know if he’ll even look at me, because I can barely look at myself.

All Quiet on the Western Front.

He whom nature thus bereaves, Is ever fancy's favourite child; For thee enchanted dreams she weaves Of changeful beauty, bright and wild.

Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us.

CHILDHOOD: The rapidly shrinking interval between infancy and first arrest on a drug or weapons charge.

We are all equal before the law, but not before those appointed to applyit.

Grown old in love from seven till seven times seven,I oft have wished for Hell for ease from Heaven.