“The chief requisite for the making of a good chicken pie is chicken; no amount of culinary legerdemain can make up for the lack of chicken. In the same way, the chief requisite for the history of science is intimate scientific knowledge; no amount of philosophic legerdemain can make up for its absence.”

“Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken!”

“The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.”

“[The] amount of search is not a measure of the amount of intelligence being exhibited. What makes a problem a problem is not that a large amount of search is required for its solution, but that a large amount would be required if a requisite level of intelligence were not applied.”

“Chickens can do many things, but they cannot make sophisticated deals with humans.”

“Each day, most of the 4 billion chicken brains do what modern man's brain can't. They make eggs and chickens. Is the chicken more intelligent than man? Probably not. Therefore, something far superior to man must have made the chicken. 'Accident' is the alternative.”

“Come on, it’s an American tradition. Apple soup? Mom’s homemade chicken pie?'
She chuckled in spite of herself, then winced. 'It’s apple pie and Mom’s homemade chicken soup. But you didn’t do badly, for a start.”

“When you have bacon and eggs for breakfast, the chicken makes a contribution, the pig makes a commitment.”

“For a chicken the most beautiful is chicken.”

“When chickens get to live like chickens, they'll taste like chickens, too.”