Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.

There once was a brainy baboon, Who always breathed down a bassoon, For he said, It appears That in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

The idea of a universal mind or Logos would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of scientific theory.

Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes.

The pursuit of truth in science transcends national boundaries. It takes us beyond hatred and anger and fear. It is the best of us.

You cannot disturb the tiniest petal of a flower without the troubling of a distant star.

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.

We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.

Do not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.

I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.

...but beautiful mosaics are made of broken pieces.

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.

What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies.

Finn: I look at you because I can't look away Wendy. Wendy: That's kinda creepy. Finn: I will work on being less creepy then.

In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.

Without death and decay, how could life go on?

Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of religion.

It's not that the grass is greener on the other side, it's that you can never be on both sides of the lawn at the same time.

For that which is without a beginning, a final cause need not be sought.