"With his night-cap and his night-shirt tatters,He botches up the loop-holes in the structure of the world."
- Heinrich Heine
"When you see people only as personalities, rather than souls with life missions to fulfill, you forever limit the growth and possibilities of what God has in store for another person."
- Shannon L. Alder
"A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty of good topics. The nature of consciousness, the workings of..."
- Michael Crichton
"From the dawn of exact knowledge to the present day, observation, experiment, and speculation have gone hand in hand; and, whenever science has halted or strayed from the right path, it has been, eith..."
- Thomas Henry Huxley
"You can't always expect people to apply your wisdom when they didn't use wisdom before they found themselves knee deep in their version of justice."
"To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic..."
- Charles Darwin
"In science's pecking order, evolutionary biology lurks somewhere near the bottom, far closer to phrenology than to physics. For evolutionary biology is a historical science, laden with history's inevi..."
- Jerry A. Coyne
"Theology is like assuming that there is a black cat in a dark room where in fact there is no black cat, and endeavoring to study the cat's properties and how it may have evolved from its ancestors."
- Bangambiki Habyarimana
"I am just the biologist; I don’t require any of this to have a deeper meaning. I am aware that all of this speculation is incomplete, inexact, inaccurate, useless. If I don’t have real answers, it is ..."
- Jeff VanderMeer
"Some people will each start investing more of their salary on ‘their’ house and spending less of it on ‘their’ car or cars only when they start being able to take ‘their’ house to work, funerals, wedd..."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana