So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

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.

No one can usurp the heights...But those to whom the miseries of the worldAre misery, and will not let them rest.

All her life, dreams had been her friends. Her dreams were unusually detailed, well-structured, colorful.

Life is what you make it... and nowhere close to making mine the best it can be.

I have no way of knowing what you are going to feel when you look at one of my paintings; I only know what I feel.

I guess confidence is the only thing that I take from project to project, but I'm always open to learning everybody's style - the director, the actor I'm working with.

I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.

It's such a liability to love another person.

Conservatism is pessimistic, with a negative tendency - which we mostly resist - towards despair. Liberals are optimists, with a negative tendency, rarely resisted, towards utopianism.

Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into.

Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.