Amusing Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

“The very essence of Australia is our lack of sophistication–our refusal to conform to pretension and superficiality. We ought to be upholding our ‘fair-dinkumness’…

— Tim Macartney-Snape

“Our creaturely existence is registered, measured, discussed, and represented in increasingly abstract terms. Maybe this helps explain how someone like me, who should know…

— Tim Winton

“Continental Drift you have moved through like an ice flow- steady slow substantial tumble of glacial tongue sweeping through valleys reshaped you arrived on…

— Nancy Boutilier

“I love long regarded my country as a secret, as a land half-won, its story half-told. It was as if the past was another…

— John Pilger

A formative influence on my undergraduate self was the response of a respected elder statesmen of the Oxford Zoology Department when an American visitor…

— Richard Dawkins

“Much of Australia's history had been shaped by the contradiction that it depended intimately and comprehensively on a country which was further away that…

— Geoffrey Blainey

“Everyone loves a good iceberg, and this one is a corker." professor of Earth Observation at the University of Leeds”

— Andrew Shepherd

Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.

— P. J. O'Rourke

“how foolish I was ever to have thought that professors were intellectual giants. They’re people—and afraid the rest of the world will find out.”

— Daniel Keyes

...a vocal minority of scientists so mistrusts the models and the complex fragmentary data, that some claim that global warming is a hoax. They…

— Joanne Simpson

You don't have to be Albert Einstein to see that we, as a race of people, we Australians, are being buried by a mass…

— Fraser Anning

“Man has lost that sense of the full awfulness of the sea which aboriginally belongs to it.”

— Herman Melville