Study nature not books

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?

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.

A laboratory of natural history is a sanctuary where nothing profane should be tolerated. I feel less agony at improprieties in churches than in a scientific laboratory.

Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.

We will find our sacred-path.

Home is what you take with you, not what you leave behind.

"He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing," is one of the fundamental rules of defense.

My father wanted me to have all the educational opportunities he never had... so he sent me to a girls school.

When I speak out on corporations hurting the common man or the environment or other species, I expect a well-financed disinformation campaign to be aimed my way.

Stop thinking that other people are going to come and save you. You gotta save yourself.

Sometimes it's hell getting to heaven

I have always loved Waffle House. It's been like an oasis in the desert many times late at night after one of my concerts.

I'm becoming more adventurous.