Degree is much: the whole Atlantic might be lukewarm and never boil us a potato.

Evolution pays and that is why there is evolution

Nature is full of by-ends. A moth feeds on a petal, in a moment the pollen caught on its breast will be wedding this blossom to another in the next county.

No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere.

Boundaries which mark off one field of science from another are purely artificial, are set up only for temporary convenience. Let chemists and physicists dig deep enough, and they reach common ground.

Form may be of more account than substance. A lens of ice will focus a solar beam to a blaze.

Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it.