That ere long, now that curiosity has been so much excited on this subject, some human remains will be detected in the older alluvium of European valleys, I confidently expect.

Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession.

The present is the key to the past

There is no foundation in geological facts, for the popular theory of the successive development of the animal and vegetable world, from the simplest to the most perfect forms.

I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a northern and southern fauna.

Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.

Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of the discordance between the former and the existing causes of change.

Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man.

When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most ape-like skull he had ever beheld.

It was a profound saying of Wilhelm Humboldt, that 'Man is man only by means of speech, but in order to invent speech he must be already man.'

'Time's noblest offspring is the last.' This line of Bishop Berkeley's expresses the real cause of the belief in progress in the animal creation.

I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.

You can feel creative tension when you sense the freedom to be creative, the harmony not via compliance only, but through brainstorming.

Don't resist the urge to burn down the stronghold, kill off the main love interest or otherwise foul up the lives of your characters.

Being a critic is a terrific method for killing your love of art

Stop the poverty! Where do they think they are going?!

I like the songwriting. I don't ever listen and then go back and change stuff. For me when I wrote the song, it's always really fun and exciting.

There have been advances in the technology of beauty that I think are great. & you know what? Use it.

I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.

The fact that people actually want my autograph is crazy.

God likes to listen favorably to the prayers of His faithful, particularly when they look at Christ's body