Evolution Quote by Arthur Keith

“Truly to appreciate what fossils are requires a leap of imagination he was not capable of making.”

— Tracy Chevalier

“And I remember in frequent discourses with my master concerning the nature of manhood, in other parts of the world, having occasion to talk…

— Jonathan Swift

“It is so painful for a historian to begin his tale convinced no one will believe him, that if I thought belief had quite…

— Anne Gédéon LaFitte, Marquis de Pelleport

“...he had to comfort himself with the firm conviction that most of what he objected to in Mohawk and the world at large was…

— Richard Russo

“If a marker were to be erected today, it might read, in homage to his scientific courage: “He preferred the hard truth to his…

— Carl Sagan

The traditional doctrine of man and not the measurement of skulls and footprints is the key for the understanding of that anthropos who, despite…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“Let us not, in the pride of our superior knowledge, turn with contempt from the follies of our predecessors. The study of the errors…

— Charles MacKay

“The seeker after truth is not one who studies the writings of the ancients and, following his natural disposition, puts his trust in them,"…

— Ibn al-Haytham

“Now there are four chief obstacles in grasping truth, which hinder every man, however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title…

— Roger Bacon

“No man has a right to dictate another man's inner life - the furniture inside his skull.”

— A.S. Byatt

“Into an allegory a man can put only what he already knows; in a myth he puts what he does not yet know and…

— C.S. Lewis

“Two things are to be remembered: that a man whose opinions and theories are worth studying may be presumed to have had some intelligence,…

— Bertrand Russell