Before I speak, I have something important to say.
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
Boards don't hit back.
A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?
Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.
A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.