Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now on that, shapes the course.

Faith in order, which is the basis of science, cannot reasonably be separated from faith in an Ordainer, which is the basis of religion.

Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present.

I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it.

It remains to consider what attitude thoughtful men and Christian believers should take respecting them, and how they stand related to beliefs of another order.

In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop.

Yes, it is true that there are times when you do wonder if things are worth it but usually those moments pass as soon as they have come.

This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has become familiar, that of protoplasm.

Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation I could most wish to win.

It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the two, if only they could be seized.

This view, as a rounded whole and in all its essential elements, has very recently disappeared from science. It died a royal death with Agassiz.

I'm always looking to do different roles and play around a little bit. That's always the fun part of my job.

As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.

A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them.

True karate is this: that in daily life one's mind and body be trained and developed in a spirit of humility, and that in critical times, one be devoted utterly to the cause of justice.

The ideal state for a philosopher, indeed, is celibacy tempered by polygamy.

But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.

I'm always dreaming and doing.

May faith be the torch which illuminates, animates, and sustains you.

I would say my faith has become strengthened every time I have faced what I considered to be a trial, and there is no greater trial than being 14 and pregnant and not even knowing what it is.

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.