[T]he nature of science is not that of a steady, linear progression toward the Truth, but rather a tortuous road, often characterized by dead ends and U-turns, and yet ultimately inching toward a better, if tentative, understanding of the natural world.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. books are well written or badly written. That is all.

Oscar Wilde

Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history.

Jared Diamond

Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly.

Albert Camus

Love may precede respect but it cannot survive the loss of it.

Joe L. Wheeler

The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has...

E.A. Bucchianeri

The number of kids affected by obesity has tripled since 1980, and this can be traced in large part to lack of exercise and a healthy diet.

Virginia Foxx

Ive said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

Harry S Truman

Sometimes God writes straightforward in twisted lines.

Gloria Trevi

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Maya Angelou

The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.

Marshall McLuhan

We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.

Henry David Thoreau

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

Pablo Picasso