I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

I will jump into the river to save two brothers or eight cousins.

Money can buy a fine dog but it is kindness that makes him wag his tail.

You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away. A rat would probably be killed, though it can fall safely from the eleventh story of a building, a man is broken, a horse splashes.

We must learn not to take traditional morals too seriously. And it is just because even the least dogmatic of religions tends to associate itself with some kind of unalterable moral tradition, that there can be no truce between science and religion.

Teleology is like a mistress to a biologist: he cannot live without her but he's unwilling to be seen with her in public.

A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.