This is my prediction for the future: Whatever hasn't happened will happen, and no one will be safe from it.

The world shall perish not for lack of wonders, but for lack of wonder

Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics.

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

The idea of protoplasm, which was really a name for our ignorance, [is] only a little less misleading than the expression "Vital force".

If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of creation it would appear that God has an inordinate fondness for stars and beetles.

I do not believe in the commercial possibility of induced radioactivity.