“I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.”

A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.

I conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite sex.

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.

If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.

The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination.

The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.

Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.

Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.

Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.

Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.

I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy of the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I believe truer, to consider him created from animals.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

When you sit courtside you absolutely know what comes with being on the floor and if you don’t know it’s on the back on the ticket itself that states the guidelines.

Love at first sight? I absolutely believe in it! You’ve got to keep the faith. Who doesn’t like the idea that you could see someone tomorrow and she could be the love of your life? It’s very romantic.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.

The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn’t mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.

The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.