People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.

A procession of the damned. By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded.

Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores.

The Earth is a farm. We are someone else's property.

I think, therefore I'm going to have breakfast.

Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly.

In measuring a circle, one begins anywhere.

One can't learn much and also be comfortable One can't learn much and let anybody else be comfortable

There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards.

Do you want power over something? Be more nearly real than it.

I have taken the stand that nobody can be always wrong, but it does seem to me that I have approximated so highly that I am nothing short of a negative genius.

While you can't hold on to everything forever, you're a fool if you sell back your college books at semester's end: have you learned nothing of this life?

Ethically, she couldn't cause the suffering of any living thing. Logically, bacon cheeseburgers were delicious.

Every man, who desires to become a true father, has to look continually to the Lord, that he might learn of Him how to relate to his own children

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.

In the past, I've thrown myself into work so much there's been very little room for anything else.

When in doubt, I read Oscar Wilde.

Composers are in some ways the last frontier of musician that gets a paycheck for their musical services.

As long as you're going to think anyway, think big.

But the cure for most obstacles is, Be decisive.

The year goes wrong, and tares grow strong, Hope starves without a crumb; But God's time is our harvest time, And that is sure to come.