Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge.

Money can buy a fine dog but it is kindness that makes him wag his tail.

Capitalism, though it may not always give the scientific worker a living wage, will always protect him, as being one of the geese which produce golden eggs for its table.

This is my prediction for the future: Whatever hasn't happened will happen, and no one will be safe from it.

Teleology is like a mistress to a biologist: he cannot live without her but he's unwilling to be seen with her in public.

Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics.

The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.

Christianity is haunted by the theory of a God with a craving for bloody sacrifices.

Reality is the cage of those who lack imagination.

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.

Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.

If you would bring the magic out of your mind - the magic which will transform everything - you must believe.

I haven't really made up my mind concretely about having kids.

Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love.

If any of those times you rushed around madly - trying to get somewhere faster - had ever made any real difference in the quality of your life... don't you think you'd be able to slow down by now?

I don't have to hear that criticism, that idotic criticism anymore.

I started writing In Darkness out of a frustration of the quality of roles that I was reading in scripts for women.

Those South Africans who berate me for being loyal to our friends, literally they can go and throw themselves into a pool. I am not going to betray the trust of those who helped us.