Physiology has, at last, gained control over the nerves which stimulate the gastric glands and the pancreas.

Never think that you already know all. However highly you are appraised, always have the courage to say to yourself-I am ignorant.

Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.

When the dog is repeatedly teased with the sight of objects inducing salivary secretion from a distance, the reaction of the salivary glands grows weaker and weaker and finally drops to zero.

Science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching.

While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things.

Men are apt to be much more influenced by words than by the actual facts of the surrounding reality

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.

Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands.

It is still open to question whether psychology is a natural science, or whether it can be regarded as a science at all.

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly.

There is more light than darkness, there has always been.

An unjust world represented as harmonious is a political position.

Nothing endures unless it has first been transposed into a myth, and the great advantage of myths is that they are ladies with portable roots.

Every time I do a movie like 'Finding Neverland' or 'Chocolat' or 'Shakespeare' in Love,' we deal with the creative process, but there's humor and fun along the way. I always love that kind of movie.

We are so bemused by our own petard, that we are unable to look at things objectively.

Meraa mitra yahaan aaiye," he murmurs. I understand only a little Hindi, enough to know what he has said: Come here, my friend. I've never known a braver girl," he says.

No such thing, the queen said, as too many sequins.

I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.

The person who proclaimed me Best Dressed Man never saw me in my sport outfit.

We know that no one should tell a woman she has to bear an unwanted child. We know that religious beliefs cannot define patriotism.