To a clear eye the smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.

There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts.

Can any one deny that the old Israelites conceived Jahveh not only in the image of a man, but in that of a changeable, irritable, and, occasionally, violent man?

The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.

I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.

For once reality and his brains came into contact and the result was fatal.

...There's a difference between desire and desperation. You should never want a guy more than he wants you.

I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.

Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!

Twenty five percent of Israeli citizens are not even Jewish. Anybody can become an Israeli citizen if you qualify. Religion is not a criterion for citizenship.

During high school I worked in a retirement home. I spent many wonderful hours hearing from service men and their widows about WWI.

In London they don't like you if you're still alive.

Anyone who's lived with companion cats or dogs knows that they are unique individuals with their own personalities. I think animals' secret to getting along is that they are not burdened by an ego.

People want the answer to cancer, and they're not going to get it without spending money, because money is frozen energy that unfreezes itself when you pay people to work.

I get emotional when young people get nostalgic about my work. That's why it's called nostalgia. Sometimes I even cry.

If the Black woman is a queen, and I believe that she is, why would I settle for something less than royal?