Never call an accountant a credit to his profession a good accountant is a debit to his profession.

Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession.

The present is the key to the past

There is no foundation in geological facts, for the popular theory of the successive development of the animal and vegetable world, from the simplest to the most perfect forms.

I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a northern and southern fauna.

Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.

Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of the discordance between the former and the existing causes of change.

Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man.

That ere long, now that curiosity has been so much excited on this subject, some human remains will be detected in the older alluvium of European valleys, I confidently expect.

When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most ape-like skull he had ever beheld.

It was a profound saying of Wilhelm Humboldt, that 'Man is man only by means of speech, but in order to invent speech he must be already man.'

Joyful peace pervades my being for all time.

Knowledge is a unique kind of property, indeed: you can share it with others, while still possessing it.

Expectations are the shackles that will not permit something to be what it actually is.

The surest way to keep a secret is to make people believe they already know the answer.

I don't think things like trust should just be handed out. You have to earn that.

What is important is the future. After 40 years of creation, I continue. This is what I love.

They who prematurely put themselves forward to root out whatever is displeasing to them overthrow the judgment of God and rashly intrude upon the office of angels.

I love you baby goodnight. There goes my life

You want the story to end when it's supposed to and not be squeezed for somebody's financial gain.

The things we love tell us who we are.