We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms. — Samuel Butler Atoms Copy Share Image
“I have never written on any subject unless I believed that the authorities on it were hopelessly wrong.” — Samuel Butler Confidence Copy Share Image
Spontaneity is only a term for man's ignorance of the gods — Samuel Butler Ignorance Copy Share Image
“To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.” — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions. — Samuel Butler Conservative Copy Share Image
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. — Samuel Butler Art Copy Share Image
We all love best not those who offend us least, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy,… — Samuel Butler Compassion Copy Share Image
The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he… — Samuel Butler Animal Copy Share Image
Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; as true as a dial to the sun, although it… — Samuel Butler Football Copy Share Image
Happiness and misery depend not on how high up or low down you are - they depend not upon these, but on… — Samuel Butler Happiness Copy Share Image
“All young ladies are either very pretty or very clever or very sweet; they may take their choice as to which category… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“Embryo minds, like embryo bodies, pass through a number of strange metamorphoses before they adopt their final shape.” — Samuel Butler Evolution Copy Share Image
Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in… — Samuel Butler Christ Copy Share Image
Cat-Ideas and Mouse-Ideas. We can never get rid of mouse-ideas completely, they keep turning up again and again, and nibble, nibble-no matter… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“The flesh of animals who feed excursively is allowed to have a higher flavour than that of those who are cooped up.… — Samuel Butler Reading Copy Share Image
“For property is robbery, but then, we are all robbers or would-be robbers together, and have found it essential to organise our… — Samuel Butler Convention Copy Share Image
Science is being daily more and more personified and anthromorphized into a god. By and by they will say that science took… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“Embryos think with each stage of their development that they have now reached the only condition that really suits them. This, they… — Samuel Butler Death Copy Share Image
“I said to him one day that the very slender reward which God had attached to the pursuit of serious inquiry was… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If [science] tends to thicken the crust of ice on which, as it were, we are skating, it is all right. If… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud and vain:… — Samuel Butler Authority Copy Share Image
He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts. — Samuel Butler Good thoughts Copy Share Image
![“If [science] tends to thicken the crust of ice on which, as it were, we are skating, it is all right. If it tries to find, or professes to have found, the solid ground at the bottom of the water it is all wrong. Our business is with the thickening of this crust by extending our knowledge downward…” quote by Samuel Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cad/samuel-butler-823_bottom_if-science-tends-to-thicken-the-crust-of_1086221.jpg)
