Nature, in her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theater of the tragedy of man.

It is said that science will dehumanize people and turn them into numbers. That is false, tragically false. Look for yourself. This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz, this is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed the ashes of four million people. And that was not done by gas. It was done by arrogance. It was done by dogma. It was done by ignorance. When people believe that they have absolute knowledge, with no test in reality, this is how they behave. This is what men do when they aspire to the knowledge of gods.Science is a very human form of knowledge. We are always at the brink of the known, we always feel forward for what is to be hoped. Every judgment in science stands on the edge or error, and is personal. Science is a tribute to what we can know although we are fallible. In the end the words were said by Oliver Cromwell: I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.... We have to cure ourselves of the itch for absolute knowledge and power. We have to close the distance between the push-button order and the human act. We have to touch people.

Jacob Bronowski, The Ascent of M

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk the best of life is but intoxication.

Lord Byron

When you're too religious, you tend to point your finger to judge instead of extending your hand to help.

Steve Maraboli

The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.

W. Somerset Maugham

How then did it work out, all this? How did one judge people, think of them? How did one add up this and that and conclude that it is liking one felt, or disliking?

Virginia Woolf

I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.

Pope John XXIII

Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly

Samuel Johnson

As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

Thomas Jefferson

Why is Cloud 9 so amazing? What is wrong with Cloud 8? That joke came off the top of my head, and the top of my head ain't funny!

Mitch Hedberg

Sure, climbing Mount Everest would be cool, but that's something I would now like to do as a family. Big experiences like that I don't want to have on my own anymore. I want to share them.

Heidi Klum

Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Erwin W. Lutzer