Formulae are the anaesthetics of thought, not its stimulants and to make any one think is far better worth while than cramming him with ill-considered, and therefore indigestible, learning.

Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.

That Mars is inhabited by beings of some sort or other we may consider as certain as it is uncertain what these beings may be.

Are physical forces alone at work there, or has evolution begotten something more complex, something not akin to what we know on Earth as life? It is in this that lies the peculiar interest of Mars.

War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation.

Now when we think that each of these stars is probably the centre of a solar system grander than our own, we cannot seriously take ourselves to be the only minds in it all.

The whole object of science is to synthesize, and so simplify; and did we but know the uttermost of a subject we could make it singularly clear.

A river has many curves, but it always reaches the ocean.

I'm having a hard time finding a date. I don't trust any women I meet. I'm very skeptical.

My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.

I think much sociopolitical art delivers truisms that are quite flat.

We [Federal Government] have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work.

One man, one horse, one holocaust on demand.

I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons.

The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn't think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.

Girls begin to have second thoughts about the violence. Studies show they feel a considerable amount of guilt about it. They feel bad later and want to apologize.

My parents moved back to New York from Florida when I was in the ninth grade.