The 2nd law of thermodynamics has the same degree of truth as the statement that if you throw a tumblerful of water into the sea, you cannot get the same tumblerful of water out again.

In Science, it is when we take some interest in the great discoverers and their lives that it becomes endurable, and only when we begin to trace the development of ideas that it becomes fascinating.

I have looked into most philosophical systems and I have seen that none will work without God.

The true Logic for this world is the Calculus of Probabilities, which takes account of the magnitude of the probability.

Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.

In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data.

The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.

Faraday is, and must always remain, the father of that enlarged science of electromagnetism.

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers.

It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state.

... And the boy whose hair remained the color of lemons forever.

No one is ever too old for stories.” ~ Durban Chola

Every story is us

Attitude is your number one weapon against mediocrity.

When Julia Child was asked to what she credited her longevity she replied "Red meat and gin."

And we believe that our policies toward Iraq simply are to protect the region and to protect Iraq's people and neighbors.

Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

People love the way they're capable of loving-but that's not always how you want them to love or how you think they should love.

If you dress like a movie star, you have me.

It's striking how commercially viable that impulse for instant intimacy is right now, especially in songs and writing.