What a cruel irony of fate, to pair together, like Siamese twins united by the shoulders, scientific adversaries of such contrasting character!

The brain is a world consisting of a number of unexplored continents and great stretches of unknown territory.

Every man if he so desires becomes sculptor of his own brain.

The worst part is not in making a mistake but in trying to justify it, instead of using it as a heaven-sent warning of our mindlessness or our ignorance.

In summary, all great work is the fruit of patience and perseverance, combined with tenacious concentration on a subject over a period of months or years.

Unfortunately, nature seems unaware of our intellectual need for convenience and unity, and very often takes delight in complication and diversity.

There are no small problems. Problems that appear small are large problems that are not understood

It is idle to dispute with old men. Their opinions, like their cranial sutures, are ossified.

In adult centers the nerve paths are something fixed, ended, immutable. Everything may die, nothing may be regenerated.

That which enters the mind through reason can be corrected. That which is admitted through faith, hardly ever.

To know the brain...is equivalent to ascertaining the material course of thought and will, to discovering the intimate history of life in its perpetual duel with external forces.

The beauty of a face is transient, but the beauty of a loving heart is everlasting.

The devil is not as black as he is painted.

Being a kid, by the time I was three years old, my mom was married, divorced and had three kids; she was 19 - so, my brother's just older than my mom.

I've played a lot of bad guys, 'cause that was the only work I could get. People saw my face and went 'oooh'.

who hasn't slept in an empty bed sometimes, longing for the embrace of another person on the achingly short trip to the grave?

Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education and proper nutrition.

Forced federal registration of U.S. citizens based on religious identity is fascism, period. Nothing else to call it.

Anubis frowned. He locked his very nice eyes with mine. “You’re not dead.” “No,” I said. “Though we’re trying awfully hard.

I have learned there is a gift wrapped inside of every adversity and, if you have faith and hope, you can lose everything and still survive.

It is fairly clear that many of the arguments against proposition testing are really arguments against propositions themselves.