The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.