Fairies, arouse! Mix with your song Harplet and pipe…

If the world goes crazy for a lovely fossil, that's fine with me. But if that fossil releases some kind of mysterious brain ray…

— Carl Zimmer

Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results are regarded…

— Martin Gardner

Inwardness is the characteristic feature of the vegetable rather than the animal approach to existence. The animals move, migrate and swarm, while plants hold…

— Terence McKenna

Having still in my recollection so many excellent men, to whose grandfathers, upon the same spots, my grandfather had yielded cheerful obedience and reverence,…

— William Cobbett

Do you solemnly swear never to conceal a vital clue from the reader? Do you promise to observe seemly moderation in the use of…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Each time a swarm of worries invades your mind, refuse to be affected; wait calmly, while seeking the remedy. Spray the worries with the…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

The legends of fieldwork locate all important sites deep in inaccessible jungles inhabited by fierce beasts and restless natives, and surrounded by miasmas of…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Beyond individual intelligence, nature has also cultivated intelligence through swarms. For example, bees, birds and fish act in a more intelligent way when acting…

— Louis B. Rosenberg

When I go hear a man speak, I like to hear him speak like he's fighting a swarm of bees.

— Abraham Lincoln

Most startup companies have two people, and they figure out creative ways to swarm problems. They move faster and have more impact.

— Scott D. Anthony

Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; and till thou hast gone on, and…

— Laurence Sterne

Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults.

— John Calvin

You want to stay alive in a zombie swarm? You go alone or in a small group, where everyone is of similar physical condition…

— Mira Grant

The implied threat of using nuclear weapons to curb guerrillas was as absurd as to talk of using a sledge hammer to ward off…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.

— Michel de Montaigne