The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.

In some ways I'm still recovering from the trial. My health is not as good as it ought to be. I've gone back to practicing law and it seems to have taken a toll for whatever reason.

I think it hurt my performance because I stopped being me. That won't ever happen again.

It's much like writing a screenplay with someone else and that's how we view it, I think.

Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?

My sense, talking to the general public around the country, is that most people don't have a very high level of scientific literacy.

The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.

I have expertise in five different fields which helps me to easily understand the analogy between my scientific problems and those occurring in nature.