“I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.”

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.

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

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate – it’s apathy. It’s not giving a damn.

Horror gives place to wonder at your true account; The rest outstrips our comprehension; we give up.

Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart.

It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us.

Life is like a confused teacher. First she gives the test and then teaches the lesson.

You have to take power. No one gives it.

I’ll always be grateful to the land and to nature for all its given us!

When your intelligence don’t tell you something ain’t right, your conscience gives you a tap you on the shoulder and says ‘Hold on’. If it don’t, you’re a snake.