What nature does in the course of long periods we do every day when we suddenly change the environment in which some species of living plant is situated.

All knowledge that is not the real product of observation, or of consequences deduced from observation, is entirely groundless and illusory.

It is not enough to discover and prove a useful truth previously unknown, but that it is necessary also to be able to propagate it and get it recognized.

The form follows the function.

Habits form a second nature.

It is not always the magnitude of the differences observed between species that must determine specific distinctions, but the constant preservation of those differences in reproduction.

We can not improve humanity if everyone is conforming to society's standards. Set your own standard, and find out for yourself.

Wriggling around, two fingers deep in my back end like some teenage boy unsure what he should be tugging at inside his girlfriend’s nether region I wrestled a fifty free.

(I. F. Stone had once called it an exciting paper to read because you never knew on what page you would find a page-one story),

One seldom recognizes the devil when he is putting his hand on your shoulder.

One out of forty American men wears women's clothing. We've had more than forty presidents. One of these guys has been dancing around the Oval Office in a prom dress.

I have been blessed by having, and I admittedly am biased, some of the smartest, hardest-working, and good people in my administration that I think any president has ever had.

Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.

I speak as I must and cannot be silent.

A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.

You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture.