"Botany is the art of insulting flowers..." - Quote by Alphonse Karr

“Women's glances express what they dare not speak.”

“Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one.”

“Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.”

“I've never stayed at a bed and breakfast. If I did, I figure you would start to get hungry! "Is that all you got around here? Well, maybe you can direct me to a chair lunch dinner."”

“The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.”

“What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?”

“The old rules may say we can’t protect our environment and promote economic growth at the same time, but in America, we’ve always used new technologies - we’ve used science; we’ve used research and development and discovery to make the old rules obsolete.”

“I fully agree with you about the significance and educational value of as well as history and philosophy of science. So many people today - and even professional - seem to me like someone who has seen thousands of trees but has never seen a forest. A knowledge of the historic and philosophical background gives that kind of independence from prejudices of his generation from which most scientists are suffering. This independence created by philosophical insight is - in my opinion - the mark of distinction between a mere artisan or specialist and a real seeker after truth.”

“The variety of colour in objects cannot be discerned at a great distance, excepting in those parts which are directly lighted up by the solar rays.”