"Bill Walton is incredible. If you drop a toothpick on his foot, he'll have a stress fracture."

“Things don't have to be sane when they're normal.”

Source : Carol Plum-Ucci (2008). “The Body of Christopher Creed”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“What struck me most in England was the perception that only those works which have a practical tendency awake attention and command respect, while the purely scientific, which possess far greater merit are almost unknown. And yet the latter are the proper source from which the others flow. Practice alone can never lead to the discovery of a truth or a principle. In Germany it is quite the contrary. Here in the eyes of scientific men no value, or at least but a trifling one, is placed upon the practical results. The enrichment of science is alone considered worthy attention.”

“It might drive some people crazy, living like this, but the quiet keeps me company.”

“Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.”

“I have never seen . . . so slippery, so disgusting a candidate.”

“According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another.”

Source : "The Dynamics of Evolution: The Punctuated Equilibrium Debate in the Natural and Social Sciences". Book by Albert Somit and Steven Peterson, p. 21-48, "Speciational Evolution or Punctuated Equilibria", 1992.

“When I am performing, I try to follow the advice I give to my students. This can be very hard - I was never a good student and I find I'm no better when I am the teacher.”

“I was so happy to be out of there. “Barabas, if you weren’t batting for the other team, I’d marry you.” He grinned. “If I weren’t batting for the other team, I would accept your proposal. You had me at ‘No comment.’ If all my clients were this smart, my life would be much easier. Much, much easier.”