All Sayings

As soon as I had found the tubercle bacillus, I found it also in the sputum of phthisical patients.

You can't have a hypothesis unless you have some facts. And I haven't got any facts yet.

The gene for stupidity will be found within 10 years.

If you want to get ahead in science, you have to be prepared to be a bit of a bastard.

I have been treated as a heretic in my own time, but truth will prevail.

The physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

Don't ever tell anybody anything, or you'll never get anything done.

I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.

The only way to get a good idea is to get a lot of ideas and throw the bad ones away.

I am an atheist, a republican, and a lover of mankind.

If a sparrow come before my window, I take part in its existence and pick about the gravel with it.

The Child is father of the Man.

I swear to the Lord I still can't see why Democracy means everybody but me.

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

There was a time when man had a closer communion with the natural world, but now we have become so separated. We have lost our sense of wonder.

I am more than ever convinced that the object of the Imagination, as well as of the Reason, is to penetrate into the hidden laws of Nature.

I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.

It often seems to me that the night is much more alive and richly coloured than the day.

Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It's enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.

Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.