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

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.

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 Creator, if He exists, has a special preference for beetles.

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The quality of your life is a function of the quality of the thinking you have done.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.

OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.

Does it not stir up our hearts, to go forth and help them, does it not make us long to leave our luxury, our exceeding abundant light, and go to them that sit in darkness?

It's a great feeling for me just to put my uniform on and be part of my team.

If you and I have not seen God, we cannot bear witness to God.

There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide.

You should pull him back besides in all the lines before the quarter, just as you make the others advance.