Despite the Great Chain of Being's traditional ranking of humans between animals and angels, there is no evolutionary justification for the common assumption that evolution is somehow 'aimed' at humans, or that humans are 'evolution's last word'.

Being a father to my family and a husband is to me much more important than what I did in the business.

Tom Bosley

I read Christopher McDougall's book 'Born to Run.' If running were a religion, this would be its bible. I actually scribbled my favorite passages on my arm to read during the race.

Jennifer Carpenter

Chemically speaking, chocolate really is the world's perfect food.

Michael Levine, quoted in The Em

Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

George Farquhar

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

Mencius (Mengzi Mengtse)

The proverb warns; Don't bite the hand that feeds you. But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.

Thomas Szasz

The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.

Seymour Papert

Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.

Louis Kahn

I can only strive for what is important

Rosie Thomas

We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world... learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.

Jesse Jackson

Form follows beauty.

Oscar Niemeyer