I think whenever a writer is really enjoying themselves and liking what they are doing, that shows on the page.
Teleology is like a mistress to a biologist: he cannot live without her but he's unwilling to be seen with her in public.
Einstein - the greatest Jew since Jesus. I have no doubt that Einstein's name will still be remembered and revered when Lloyd George, Foch and William Hohenzollern share with Charlie Chaplin that ineluctable oblivion which awaits the uncreative mind.
Man armed with science is like a baby with a box of matches.
This is my prediction for the future: Whatever hasn't happened will happen, and no one will be safe from it.
Money can buy a fine dog but it is kindness that makes him wag his tail.
Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics.
Perseverance means to continue in a given course until we have reached a goal or objective, regardless of obstacles, opposition, and other counterinfluences. . . Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic. . . It gives us hope by helping us realize that the righteous suffer no failure except in giving up and no longer trying.
Intention is the measure for rendering actions true, so that, where intention is sound, action is sound, and where it is corrupt, then action is corrupt
He (Ozzie Smith) plays like he's on a mini-trampoline or wearing helium kangaroo shorts.
Our principles fix what our life stands for, our aims create the light our life is bathed in, and our rationality, both individual and coordinate, defines and symbolizes the distance we have come from mere animality. It is by these means that our lives come to more than what they instrumentally yield. And by meaning more, our lives yield more.