George Eliot

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

The responsibility of tolerance lies in those who have the wider vision.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman’s life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul’s highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.

Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.

If I could snap my fingers and do one thing in science, I would get more funding for basic science. But the level of funding that needs to be done is not on the order of millions, like the cost of the Breakthrough Prizes. It’s billions to tens of billions.

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.

It’s really cold outside, they are calling it a major freeze, weeks ahead of normal. Man, we could use a big fat dose of global warming!

Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories – those that don’t work, those that break down and those that get lost.

The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.

If you have a glass full of liquid you can discourse forever on its qualities, discuss whether it is cold, warm, whether it is really and truly composed of H-2-O, or even mineral water, or sake. Meditation is Drinking it!

Science is always wrong, it never solves a problem without creating ten more.

A physicist is an atom’s way of knowing about atoms.

To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labour, is to expect a peculiar privilege, a power denied to the rest of mankind; but to suppose that the maze is inscrutable to diligence, or the heights inaccessible to perseverance, is to submit tamely to the tyranny of fancy, and enchain the mind in voluntary shackles.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty.

Science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance.