History shows you don't know what the future brings.
Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them.
One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for explanations for every natural act.
Christmas day is the children's, but the holidays are youth's dancing-time.
Men were just like sheep, and nothing was easier than for women to set up as shepherds and pen them up in a field.
Youth cannot imagine romance apart from youth.
There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink
Humans are a young species, and my little life abides in a very big place, where epochs glide by as swiftly as the mongoose. And strangely enough, when we put our human concerns into their proper, small place, we can turn our attention completely to the small things. To a cricket hidden in a crack of lava. To each other.
The chief contribution of such a radically new and more powerful instrument would be, not to supplement our present ideas of the universe we live in, but rather to uncover new phenomena not yet imagined, and perhaps modify profoundly our basic concepts of space and time.
In show business, if you make a mistake, you can do it over again.
Sometimes human beings are very much like bees. Bees are fiercely protective of their hive, provided you are outside it. Once you’re in, the workers sort of assume that it must have been cleared by management and take no notice; various freeloading insects have evolved a mellifluous existence because of this very fact. Humans act the same way.