“We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.”

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.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.

Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.

We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.

I’m not in favor of the government mandating a prayer in school because our country was founded on the fact that no particular religious faith would have ascendance over or preferential treatment over any other.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

The government needs to send out a message to the business community that ‘we are on your side.’

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

The governor of Texas, who, when asked if the Bible should also be taught in Spanish, replied that ‘if English was good enough for Jesus, then it’s good enough for me.

All I want is the same thing you want. To have a nation with a government that is as good and honest and decent and competent and compassionate and as filled with love as are the American people.

I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.