Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction

All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

When the mind gets a solution [settlement], it is considered religion. It is considered irreligion when the mind does not get a solution.

Information is controlled because the free flow of truth is not always expedient for those wishing to maintain control.

Those who say they would rather fight to the death than be raped are fools. I would rather be raped a thousand times. You do what you have to.

I've always found as an actress that the best thing to do in film or TV or theater is just to lose yourself in it. Think of the story, the character, the worlds we're in, and forget everything else.

It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

I think life is meant to be fun. You find work that you love and you surround yourself with people that you love. Life shouldn't be too difficult.

But she named the infant "Pearl," as being of great price-purchased with all she had-her mother's only treasure!

If this were fiction, could even the most brilliant novelist contrive to make credible so short a period in which pride had been subdued and prejudice overcome?

I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance to have had a youth with no one to tell of it to when one grows old.

It's through the voice that I tend to figure out the character (and through dialogue that I come to understand other characters).