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.

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

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.

A laboratory of natural history is a sanctuary where nothing profane should be tolerated. I feel less agony at improprieties in churches than in a scientific laboratory.

He who forgets the past is doomed to repeat it.

Magic is seeing wonder in nature's every little thing, seeing how wonderful the fireflies are and how magical are the dragonflies.

Books are silent, but have the ability to scream.

The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something.

When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense.

There is no change in the top six of division 2, except that Leeds have moved into the top six

I've been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I've managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I'm very thankful

Not that anyone cares, but there's a right and wrong way to clean a house.

I don't really care about being right, I just care about success.

A movie tends to box you in, at least as far as the aesthetics. You have an incredibly kinetic experience, which is the joy of cinema.