The theory [of evolution] is a scientific mistake.

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?

Study nature not books

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.

I guess god simply wants me to meet many wrong people before I meet the right one.

Organisations are innovating quicker than ever. Your members need to excel from being a team player to a team builder.

Summer-induced stupidity.That was the diagnosis...

One thing you have got to do politically is to identify the ties that bind society together and try to strengthen them.

In reality there is nothing to fear in the present. Fear is projected onto the present by memory.

As I found out making this last movie ["Method"], if you ever do things in an unusual, different way, you got to fight because there's no way people will let you.

The three most important things in retail are location, location, location. The three most important things for our consumer business are technology, technology, technology.

A sensual life is a ghostly existence where you live on the surface and your soul passes through everything, touching nothing.

The best performers in Europe are those who use their welfare states to help people adjust to change.

The proposition that the meek (that is the adaptable and serviceable), inherit the earth is not merely a wishful sentiment of religion, but an iron law of evolution.