"Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones."

"I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose."

"Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature."

"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?"

"I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date."

"To his dog, every man is Napoleon hence the constant popularity of dogs."

"God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things."

"We know that appropriators will fight these cutbacks. But by eliminating earmarks, we can stop the horse trading that grows agency budgets."