A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning the main aim of his life.

I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific bigwigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the middle of them.

Whatsoever we perpetrate, we do but row; we are steered by fate.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.

If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?

People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

Science is being daily more and more personified and anthromorphized into a god. By and by they will say that science took our nature upon him, and sent down his only begotten son, Charles Darwin, or Huxley, into the world so that those who believe in him, &c.; and they will burn people for saying that science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance.