There are men who would be afraid to commit themselves on the doctrine that castor oil is a laxative.

Men have had the vanity to pretend that the whole creation was made for them, while in reality the whole creation does not suspect their existence.

Nature is so varied in its modes of action, so multiple in the manisftations of its power, that we have no night to set any limits to its capabilities.

If the existence of human beings leads to nothing, what is all this comedy about?

What, then, is this blue sky, which certainly does exist, and which veils from us the stars during the day?

The present inhabitation of Mars be a race superior to ours is very probable.

Lightning seems a thought, which instead of being attached to a brain, is attached to an electric current.

The supernatural does not exist.

Le Verrier-without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky-had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation, and, as it were, touched it with the tip of his pen!

Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other.

Sweet is the lore which nature brings

Love is a spiritual soul.

I think it's up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.

Everyone will live in his own cathedral.

The brain appears to have been designed to solve problems related to surviving in an outdoor setting, in unstable meteorological conditions, and to do so in near constant motion.

I wouldn't say I'm a ball hog. I'm a shooter.

I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.

You can't be happy, if you're not free and you're not fulfilling yourself.

A readership crisis is really a leadership crisis.

I haven't talked to [Donald] Trump since he made his comments about [John] McCain being captured; now he doesn't respect military guys that get captured.