[Geology] may be looked upon as the history of the earth's changes during preparation for the reception of organized beings, a history, which has all….

A prolonged war in which a nation takes part is bound to impoverish the breed, since the character of the breed depends on the men who are left..

I never, ever would or did rob anyone in my life..

If you're smiling , you're happy out..

In Science, it is when we take some interest in the great discoverers and their lives that it becomes endurable, and only when we begin to trace the ….

The true Logic for this world is the Calculus of Probabilities, which takes account of the magnitude of the probability..

I don't take too many things too seriously..

I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz..

The statement that although the past can be recorded, the future cannot, is translatable into the statistical statement: Isolated states of order are….

[Richard Drew] always encouraged his people to pursue ideas... He said, "If it's a dumb idea, you'll find out. You'll smack into that brick wall, the….

Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point..

To cross the seas, to traverse the roads, and to work machinery by galvanism, or rather electro-magnetism, will certainly, if executed, be the most n….

Why do some die and some live? The answer was clearly, that on the whole the best fitted live. From the effects of disease the most healthy escaped; ….

In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the most eminent living men of science. New fa….

Good people are seldom fully recognised during their lifetimes, and here, there are serious problems of corruption. One day it will be realised that ….

Philosophy is regarded by many as inseparable from speculation. ... Philosophy has proceeded from speculation to science..

Electricity is but yet a new agent for the arts and manufactures, and, doubtless, generations unborn will regard with interest this century, in which….

The laws of physics and chemistry must be the same in a crucible as in the larger laboratory of Nature..

There is a tendency to consider anything in human behavior that is unusual, not well known, or not well understood, as neurotic, psychopathic, immatu….

Our purpose is to be able to measure the intellectual capacity of a child who is brought to us in order to know whether he is normal or retarded. ...….

I'm just taking one match at a time..