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

Now, if the cooperation of some thousands of millions of cells in our brain can produce our consciousness, a true singularity, the idea becomes vastly more plausible that the cooperation of humanity, or some sections of it, may determine what Comte calls a Great Being.

The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern.

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

Man armed with science is like a baby with a box of matches.

It wasn't until I had performed by first autopsy that I realized that even the drabest human exteriors could contain the most beautiful viscera. After that, I would console myself for the plainness of my fellow bus-riders by dissecting them in my imagination.

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.