Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.

Science does not give us absolute and final certainty. It only gives us assurance within the limits of our mental abilities and the prevailing state of scientific thought.

The only measurement I understand is perfection.

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.

During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.

We are here to let in the light of Liberty upon political superstition.

In group lesson number six I think we learned how to turn backwards and then just kind of wiggle. That wasn't really skating backward, but I guess I was going in the right direction.

When you look at a tree and perceive its stillness, you become still yourself. You connect with it at a very deep level. You feel a oneness with whatever you perceive in and through stillness.

Be kind to everyone,becaus e everyone you meet is fighting a battle

We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.

The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests.

Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.