Samuel Butler

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.

The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

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!

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.

Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.

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

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 becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

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

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

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

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.

Science is but an image of the truth.

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

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

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.