Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
No, ghosts are real. You can see them, touch them, and hear them. But they do not exist. Which is why science… — Natsuhiko Kyogoku Copy Share Image
For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The liberal feminist movement never imagined that women would take seriously the encouragement to become our own heroes and claim life for… — Tammy Bruce Copy Share Image
The test, surely, of a creed is not the ability of those who accept it to announce their faith; its test is… — Harold Laski Copy Share Image
While we use American power to fight hard for democracy against extremism on both left and right, our critics seem suspicious of… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
At first, I felt bad judging an entire state by one county political official, but then I found out Morrison had also… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
As much as I adore Agatha Christie - and I think people make this claim about murder mysteries in general - it's… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
The game in beauty is changing so much, if your product isn't high tech or can't make a unique performance claim -… — Andrea Jung Copy Share Image
Seminary also introduced me to the historical study of Jesus and Christian origins. I learned from my professors and the readings they… — Marcus Borg Copy Share Image
How is it possible for one’s heart to be certain that one is going to meet Allah, that Allah sees and hears… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
Monotheism at Sinai, primitive Christianity, messianic socialism: these are the three supreme moments in which Western culture is presented with what Ibsen… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Even those who claim the Bible's inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages - the Ten Commandments, say, or… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I believe in revelation, but not in revelation which each religion claims to possess, but in the living revelation which surrounds us… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
A man must first care for his own household before he can be of use to the state. But no matter how… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We're living in an age of genocide. ...And we do believe that there is not only the genocide of war, and the… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
The real heretic is not the atheist or agnostic (who are often decent people) but those who murmur "it doesn't matter what… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
No, nothing is sacred. And even if there were to be something called sacred, we mere primates wouldn't be able to decide… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There can be no such things as an Irish nationalist accepting the loyalist veto and partition. You cannot claim to be an… — Gerry Adams Copy Share Image
The psychedelic experience is the beginning of the spiritual path. That's why it's not important that yogas' claim that they can deliver… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Socrates claimed famously that one never loses by doing the right thing. Stephen Post and his contributors claim, a little less boldly,… — Holmes Rolston III Copy Share Image
Was everyone else really as alive as she was?...If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated,… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
All things in nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfill their function and make no claim. All… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Income and inheritance taxes imply the denial of private property, and in that are different in principle from all other taxes. The… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
Yet if anyone cares to read over the now crumbling minutes giving an account of the meetings at which the Italian Fasci… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
There is no law by which to determine the superiority of nations; hence the vanity of the claim, and the idleness of… — Lew Wallace Copy Share Image
You need only claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Copy Share Image
To claim that science and religion pose different questions to the world is not to suggest that if the bones of Jesus… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
When it comes to English stand-up comedy, Indians have only seen the best - Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Cosby and the like. So,… — Vir Das Copy Share Image
The United States government was proud that, although perhaps 100,000 Iraqis had died in the Gulf War of 1991, there were only… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The question before us is, whether people of African ancestry compose a portion of this people, and are constituent members of this… — Roger Brooke Taney Copy Share Image
Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
There have been many claims that [U.S.] sanctions have hurt Burma economically, but I did not agree with that point of view.… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
What the local politicians actually meant was that they hoped to claim the land in the name of the public and then… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
It seems to me shallow and arrogant for any man in these times to claim he is completely self-made, that he owes… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
The Christian religion, [Pascal] claims, teaches two truths: that there is a God who men are capable of knowing, and that there… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
We all have heard it claimed that 13 is an 'unlucky number.' Indeed, there are many hotels in America that for this… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“The true husbandman will cease from anxiety, as the squirrels manifest no concern whether the woods will bear chestnuts this year or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image