It's a sort of curious phenomenon that God is somehow not quite as nice as the devil; the devil doesn't punish you for behaving well, but God punishes you for behaving badly.

In the moment of appreciation we live again the moment when the creator saw and held the hidden likeness.

The human baby, the human being, is a mosaic of animal and angel.

We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre, any day of the week that we want to give them their head.

I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned together.

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. ... The time has come to consider how we might bring about a separation, as complete as possible, between Science and Government in all countries. I call this the disestablishment of science, in the same sense in which the churches have been disestablished and have become independent of the state.

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding