The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the hard sciences so brilliantly successful.

Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?

E. O. Wilson

Love is agrowing, to full constant light; and his first minute, after noon, is night.

Donne, John

If you love it, and work really hard at it, it will really happen, I believe. I'm living proof.

Kristen Johnston

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

Gaston Bachelard

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Dorothy Nevill

If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

Source Unknown

What will remain is neither you nor me but what we shared among each others.

Santosh Kalwar

Since we are assured that the all-wise Creator has observed the most exact proportions of number, weight and measure in the make of all things, the most likely way therefore to get any insight into the nature of those parts of the Creation which come within our observation must in all reason be to number, weigh and measure.

Stephen Hales

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

Ralph Marston

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.

Charles Caleb Colton

The funny thing is, Dennis Miller got me back into comedy.

Tommy Chong