A physicist that I know commented that many other scientific disciplines, such as geology, anthropology, astronomy, are also challenged by biblical fundamentalism, but their people seem to be able to get on with their work without worrying unduly. Only Darwinians seem thrown into a frenzy that sends them running to litigation and demanding censorship. His explanation was that it's a rival religion.

I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.

J. Michael Straczynski

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else you are the one who gets burned.

Buddha

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

Bertrand Russell

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

Plato

Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Arthur Ashe

Love makes those young whom age doth chill, and whom he finds young keeps young still.

William Cartwright

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man'sto keep unmarried as long as he can.

George Bernard Shaw

I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.

Earl Scruggs

When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may.

Joseph Lancaster

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

Brian Eno

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.

Orson Scott Card