you can give it a long name if you like, but I'm an old-fashioned woman and I call it mother-wit, and it's so rare for a man to have it that if he does you write a book about him and call him Sherlock Holmes.

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.

It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.

There's ways and ways of dyin'. Some is took, and some takes French leave, and others is 'elped out of life.

How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.

We ought to recognise the profound gulf between the work to which we are 'called' and the work we are forced into as a means of livelihood.

The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false statements made in error, we open up the way for false statements by intention. And a false statement of fact, made deliberately, is the most serious crime a scientist can commit.