I expect you have seen someone put a a lighted match to a bit of newspaper which is propped up in a grate against an unlit fire. And for a second nothing seems to have happened; and then you notice a tiny steak of flame creeping along the edged of the newspaper. It was like that now.

The Christians say that God has done miracles. The modern world, even when it believes in God, and even when it has see the defenselessness of nature, does not. It thinks God would not do that sort of thing.

I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.

Friends are seldom found; they are made.

A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.

No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.

You cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.