I cannot consider anything. Professors in this College are machines. The Regulations will not even let us recommend our students for appointments. I am a machine, and you have worked me. I have to do .

I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history.

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.

With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.

Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough -- -as most wrong theories are!

Men are killed outright in the reserves sometimes, while others who have been left for dead in the thickest corner crawl out and survive.

All four Gospels agree in giving us a picture of a very definite personality. One is obliged to say, Here was a man. This could not have been invented.

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.

When the mind grapples with a great and intricate problem, it makes its advances step by step, with but little realization of the gains it has made, until suddenly, with an effect of abrupt illumination, it realizes its victory.

Here these fools-I'm trying to conquer a new element-trying to do a thing that will revolutionise life. And instead of taking an intelligent interest, they grin and make their stupid jokes, and call me and my appliances names.

Once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely.

Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation.

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

Our true nationality is mankind.

If there is no God, nothing matters. If there is a God, nothing else matters.

Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

It's no use locking the door after the steed is stolen.