To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains.

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think

It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher.

God gave me the stubbornness of a mule and a fairly keen scent.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.