Strange & Unusual Sayings

But I am very poorly today & very stupid & I hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders.

I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and as I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would ha…

I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and as I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would ha…

I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.

I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections – a mere heart of stone.

Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.

Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.

A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton.

A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.

I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.

I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.

I do not wish to give the impression that I think there is no mystery about consciousness. There is, for instance, something of a paradox connected with any attempt to localize it.

I do not wish to give the impression that I think there is no mystery about consciousness. There is, for instance, something of a paradox connected with any attempt to localize it.

It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers… They would be able to converse with each other to sharpen their wits. At some stage therefore, we should have to expect the mac…

I am not very impressed with theological arguments whatever they may be used to support. Such arguments have often been found unsatisfactory in the past. In the time of Galileo it was argued that the texts, 'And the sun stood still... and hasted not …

I am not very impressed with theological arguments whatever they may be used to support. Such arguments have often been found unsatisfactory in the past. In the time of Galileo it was argued that the texts, 'And the sun stood still... and hasted not …

No doubt I shall emerge from it all a different man, but quite who I've not found out.