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I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul.

Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics.

It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can imagine.

The world shall perish not for lack of wonders, but for lack of wonder

The Creator, if He exists, has a special preference for beetles.

Christianity is haunted by the theory of a God with a craving for bloody sacrifices.

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

The advance of scientific knowledge does not seem to make either our universe or our inner life in it any less mysterious.

I will give up my belief in evolution if someone finds a fossil rabbit in the Precambrian.

In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

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

You can analyze a glass of water and you're left with a lot of chemical components, but nothing you can drink.

There are 400,000 species of beetles on this planet, but only 8,000 species of mammals.

And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.

Reality is the cage of those who lack imagination.

I wish I had the voice of Homer to sing of rectal carcinoma.

To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size.

I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't know why I do things.

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

The idea of protoplasm, which was really a name for our ignorance, [is] only a little less misleading than the expression "Vital force".

I do not believe in the commercial possibility of induced radioactivity.

Teleology is like a mistress to a biologist: he cannot live without her but he's unwilling to be seen with her in public.

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.

My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.

Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge.

If human beings could be propagated by cutting, like apple trees, aristocracy would be biologically sound.

I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.

There can be no truce between science and religion.

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

It was a reaction from the old idea of "protoplasm", a name which was a mere repository of ignorance.

Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.

A time will however come (as I believe) when physiology will invade and destroy mathematical physics, as the latter has destroyed geometry.

An ounce of algebra is worth a ton of verbal argument.