The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are curiously parallel.

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.

Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life

Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.

A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

Leadership is Art

Be focused in what you do and what you say. There is much noise in the world to detrack you.

You can't tell the audience — well, you can, but I don't like to tell the audience — that anything they're watching doesn't matter.

Electric cars are not going to take the market by storm, but it's going to be a gradual improvement.

Until now, he has never told the full story of his life, in his own voice.

In England it was enough that Newton was the greatest mathematican of his century; in France he would have been expected to be agreeable too.

All arts his own, the hungry Greekling counts; And bid him mount the skies, the skies he mounts.

throughout human history people have scarred, painted, pierced, padded, stiffened, plucked, and buffed their bodies in the name of beauty.

California is maybe the richest place in the world. They're destroying the best public education system in the world.

I think everything should be governed by law. We don't want to keep secrets anymore.