Science is incompetent to reason upon the creation of matter itself out of nothing. We have reached the utmost limit of our thinking faculties when we have admitted that because matter cannot be eternal and self-existent it must have been created.

I'm one of those people that think Thomas Edison and the light bulb changed the world more than Karl Marx ever did.

Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.