When we say there is a GOD, we mean that there is an intelligent designing cause of what we see in the world around us, and a being who was himself uncaused.

It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.

The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.

I have procured air [oxygen] ... between five and six times as good as the best common air that I have ever met with.

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.

The more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes.

Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.

Orthodoxy, my Lord,: said Bishop Warburton, in a whisper, — orthodoxy is my doxy, — heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire.

No moment is ever isolatedWith history elsewhere, drilling its stitches.

The closest natural area to you is the wild, naturally intelligent biological community within you.

Every lighthouse knows that when the giant waves come, no one will help! And when you know that no one will help you, you fight more seriously!

... a true servant of God is someone who helps another succeed.

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.

I have a really big mouth, I have a lot of opinions and I will be heard.

I've never acted my age and I never will. It's just the way I've always been.

And when I'm not working, my agent books three auditions a day...I'd rather go to the set and work.

We don't experience the world fully unless we are willing to give everything away.

I love Cate Blanchett: she takes risks, but is still refind.