... an opportunity to allow the bees in one's bonnet to buzz even more noisily than usual.

Religion divides us, while it is our human characteristics that bind us to each other.

[Science doesn't deal with facts; indeed] fact is an emotion-loaded word for which there is little place in scientific debate.

Time is that which is manufactured by clocks.

A theory is scientific only if it can be disproved. But the moment you try to cover absolutely everything the chances are that you cover nothing.

An observer situated in a nebula and moving with the nebula will observe the same properties of the universe as any other similarly situated observer at any time.

[Newton's calculations] entered the marrow of what we know without knowing how we know it.

Our humanist attitude should therefore throughout be to stress what we all have in common with each other and relegate quarrelsome religion to the private domain where it can do [less] harm.

We find no sense in talking about something unless we specify how we measure it; a definition by the method of measuring a quantity is the one sure way of avoiding talking nonsense.

You are the completeness of my incompleteness.

Darlin’, I wasn’t just a Boy Scout, I was an Eagle Scout.

Little boats should keep near shore.

We can skip through a lot of the stuff people might ask about the writing of the book, and so their comments always start well, well down into the nitty-gritty.

I cant live without activity; I cant be sedentary.

Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.

I have a lot to be grateful for. I really do kind of get into the holiday spirit and try to find something to be grateful for anyway but this is the time of year so.

Jail-going is only the beginning, not the end of satyagraha. The acme of satyagraha for us would be to lay down our lives for the defence of India's just cause.

I've learned that forgiving is one of the greatest gifts that I can give myself.

However roguish a man may be, he always loves to deal with an honest man.