I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.

Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life

Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.

A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

Okay, fine. But just so you know, following me into hell means you're all definitely the sidekicks.

I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society.

What he [Bernie Sanders] does next will really determine whether he is blazing a trail that others can follow into office, or whether he is an exception to the rule.

The future is not as loud as war, but it is relentless. It has a terrible fury all its own.

When the wheel was accepted as part of the national flag, it was surely implied that the spinning wheel would hum in every household.

The actual process of filmmaking, the many hours out of your life- it is very slow and boring. I'm not interested in that now unless an opportunity was provided for me.

...there is no safe level of exposure to ionizing radiation, and the search for quantifying such a safe level is in vain.

Whatever you do... put your heart and soul into it!

So long as money can answer, it were wrong in any business to put the life in danger.

To walk abroad is, not with eyes, But thoughts, the fields to see and prize; Else may the silent feet, Like logs of wood, Move up and down, and see no good, Nor Jor nor glory meet.