[Scientists] define these [terms] in tight phrases which convey a meaning only to those who already understand it.

Education, like everything else, goes in fads, and has the normal human tendency to put up with something bad for just so long, and then rush to the other extreme.

There's many a true word spoken in jest; scientists are abominably solemn; therefore scientists miss many a true word.

Psychologists pay lip service to the scientific method, and use it whenever it is convenient; but when it isn't they make wild leaps of their uncontrolled fancy.

Physical scientists probably deserve the reputation they enjoy for incorruptibility and unswerving devotion to pure truth. The reason for this is that it is not worth while to bribe them.

Physicists, being in no way different from the rest of the population, have short memories for what is inconvenient.

Such instances of the almost infinite unpredictability of man are known to social scientists, but they are no more affected by them than the asylum inmate is by being told that he is not Napoleon.

Psychologists, like other scientists, pride themselves on being extremely modern, and therefore much better than any group of people that ever were before.

Insight is not the same as scientific deduction, but even at that it may be more reliable than statistics.

The dreadful cocksureness that is characteristic of scientists in bulk is not only quite foreign to the spirit of true science, it is not even justified by a superficial view.

But regular biology, as an "ology," has to be "scientific," and this means in practice that it has to be made dull.... Everything has to be expressed in utterly impersonal terms.

Attracting musicians is rather like inviting flies over to tea: they are tolerable for half an hour, but when they begin to touch the food, you either wish they would go home or die.

The spirit of hope, inner strength, enthusiasm and persistent determination are the pillars for any success.

Each of us encounters many diverse experiences that make us grow and transform, but we seek to return to our roots, which is quietude.

The best way to avoid becoming a scapegoat is to find one.

The Church is a family expecting guests.

When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man.

They’re called action scenes because they do the acting for you. You don’t have to act in action scenes.

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

'Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess.

We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them.