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Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on earth, with a top speed of 120 ft/sec, is a cow that has been dropped out of a helicopter.
Author: Dave Barry
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I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.
Author: Denis Diderot
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Author: Dwight Eisenhower
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The supreme irony of life is that no one gets out of it alive.
Author: Robert Heinlein
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Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
Author: John Morley
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Never assume the obvious is true.
Author: William Safire
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Curiosity killed the cat, but for awhile I was a suspect.
Author: Stephen Wright
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We are but a drop of water in a pool filled with diversity.
Author: Roy Ledda
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The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. - Life and Letters of Thomas Huxley.
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
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To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people.
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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If the gods do evil then they are not gods.
Author: Euripides
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All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.
Author: H.l. Mencken
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When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?
Author: John Ball
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The difference between a professional person and a technician is that a technician knows everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and his place in the scheme of things.
Author: Richard W. Livingston
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Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.
Author: Henry Adams
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All rising to great place is by winding stair.
Author: Francis Bacon
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The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so.
Author: Jacques Barzun
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History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.
Author: Jakob Burckhardt
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Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil.
Author: William Randolph Hearst
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Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.
Author: Benjamin R. Barber
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If there is no struggle there is no progress.
Author: Frederick Douglass
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To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.
Author: John Locke
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We have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we strive to resemble them.
Author: Moliere
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Without speculation there is no good and original observation.
Author: Charles Darwin
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The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to a degree which cannot be overestimated; as all high intellectual work is carried on by them, and on such work material progress of all kinds mainly depends, not to mention other and higher advantages.
Author: Charles Darwin
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
Author: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.
Author: John Steinbeck
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The pen is the tongue of the mind.
Author: Cervantes
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great.
Author: Herman Melville
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A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.
Author: Alfred Adler
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Nature acts without masters.
Author: Hippocrates
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
Author: Emily Bronte
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Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores these two great truths of population zoology: (1) no two individuals are alike, and (2) both environment and genetic endowment make a contribution to nearly every trait.
Author: Ernst Mayr
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...most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.
Author: Ernst Mayr
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Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun.
Author: Ernst Mayr
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...anyone who writes about "Darwin's theory of evolution" in the singular, without segregating the theories of gradual evolution, common descent, speciation, and the mechanism of natural selection, will be quite unable to discuss the subject competently.
Author: Ernst Mayr
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Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts...
Author: Ernst Mayr
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Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.
Author: Ernst Mayr
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Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts.
Author: Ernst Mayr
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Life is simply the reification of the process of living.
Author: Ernst Mayr
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Do not be in a hurry to tie what you cannot untie.
Author: English Proverb
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Marke it welle,There are flowers, and there are weeds-But mostly weeds.
Author: Scott Orville Bergren
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Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.
Author: Frederick Douglass
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The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him.
Author: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.
Author: Carl Bernstein
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I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as the facts are shown to be opposed to it.
Author: Charles Darwin
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The meaning of life is that it stops.
Author: Franz Kafka
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It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
Author: Alfred Adler
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If everything's under control, you're going too slow.
Author: Mario Andretti
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