Le Verrier-without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky-had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation, and, as it were, touched it with the tip of his pen!

Men have had the vanity to pretend that the whole creation was made for them, while in reality the whole creation does not suspect their existence.

Nature is so varied in its modes of action, so multiple in the manisftations of its power, that we have no night to set any limits to its capabilities.

If the existence of human beings leads to nothing, what is all this comedy about?

There are men who would be afraid to commit themselves on the doctrine that castor oil is a laxative.

What, then, is this blue sky, which certainly does exist, and which veils from us the stars during the day?

The present inhabitation of Mars be a race superior to ours is very probable.

Lightning seems a thought, which instead of being attached to a brain, is attached to an electric current.

The supernatural does not exist.

Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other.

My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.

I'm placing you under arrest for murder, conspiracy to commit murder and, I don't know, possibly littering.

Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics

If we didn't have the Albanian entrepreneurial spirit and financial support from the diaspora, this stupid political class would have destroyed the country by now.

Even Jesus had trouble with 12 guys.

You must put the odor of the human body into images describe for me the implacable, the egoistic, the sensual, the cruel there are nothing but disgusting people in this world.

Every weekend he'd have me come down to work on Dragnet, which by now was on television as well as radio.

My belief is that cancer comes from inside you and so much of it has to do with the environment of your body. It's the stress that will turn that gene on or not.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.