On your life, underestimating the proclivities of finches is likely to lead to great internal hemorrhaging.

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.

Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life

Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.

A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

i know more than i know and must learn it from myself

I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive.

It seems then that it is not the excellence of any two things (or more) in themselves, but those two things as viewed by the light of each other, that makes beauty.

I have to confess I'm not a huge comics fan in the wider sense of comics as an art form.

I think striking the right tone for your story is, if you like, the alchemical work of writing.

Our secret weapon, Khione! We're not just a bunch of demigods. We're a team.

The earth is round, smoking is linked to lung cancer, gravity makes things fall, and humans are warming the planet. Scientists strongly agree on all of these.

With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.

It seems to me that information is the thing which uses matter, uses light, uses spirit, uses whatever it can put its hands on to organize itself into higher and higher levels of self-reflection.

Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.