Philosophers and theologians have yet to learn that a physical fact is as sacred as a moral principle. Our own nature demands from us this double allegiance.

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.

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

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.

Because that's what unfaithfulness is, isn't it? A cancer that's always there in the back of your mind, eating away at the foundations of the relationship.

I have to set an example, now more than ever. Facing death is the ultimate test of character. – Cmdr. William Riker

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

In the end a lie is a lie.

One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.

For the journalist, anything probable is gospel truth.

And I swear that I don't have a gun...no I don't have a gun

I was always drawn to tough girls. I liked that domineering thing.

You really want to know your cofounders for a while, ideally years.

Just because we are women doesn't mean the only roles we can play are that of the finger-shaking girlfriend.