The fossil record implies trial and error, an inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with an efficient Great Designer.
1934 - 1996
Cosmos (1980)
Entire Collection
The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes.
Leonardo da Vinci 1452 - 1519
1452 - 1519
You can expect what you inspect.
W. Edwards Deming 1900 - 1993
1900 - 1993
What is the universe but the question what is the universe?
The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or to evil.
Pythagoras c. 570 - c. 495 BC
c. 570 - c. 495 BC
But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing.
Vincent van Gogh 1853 - 1890
1853 - 1890
We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
Thomas Browne 1605 - 1682
1605 - 1682
The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.
William Beveridge 1879 - 1963
1879 - 1963
Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul.
Pythagoras c. 570 - c. 495 BC
c. 570 - c. 495 BC
And blood in torrents pour In vain—always in vain, For war breeds war again.
John Davidson 1857 - 1909
1857 - 1909
Our great weariness comes from work not done.
Eric Hoffer 1902 - 1983
1902 - 1983
Riches are for spending.
Francis Bacon 1561 - 1626
1561 - 1626
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers 1879 - 1935
1879 - 1935
Let me see what I wrote so I know what I think
W. H. Auden 1907 - 1973
1907 - 1973
How’s it going bro? Hey, you been feeling all good lately yeah?
born 1990
Vague questions about the current situation and instructors’ conditions
And were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
Thomas Jefferson 1743 - 1826
1743 - 1826
We that did nothing study but the way to love each other, with which thoughts the day rose with delight to us, and with them set, must learn the hateful art, how to forget.
Henry King 1592 - 1669
1592 - 1669
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth.
1821 - 1881
Crime and Punishment (1866)
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
Francis Bacon 1561 - 1626
1561 - 1626
How can I help seeing what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four.' 'Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.'
1903 - 1950
Orwell, G. (1949). Nineteen eighty-four. London: Secker & Warburg.
To err is human but to really foul things up requires a computer.
The enterprise of knowledge is consistent surely with science; it should be with religion, and it is essential for the welfare of the human species.
Carl Sagan 1934 - 1996
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006)
1934 - 1996
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006)
I always voted at my party’s call, And I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
W. S. Gilbert 1836 - 1911
1836 - 1911
Note this, you proud men of action. You are nothing but the unconscious hodmen of the men of ideas...Maximilien Robespierre was nothing but the hand of Jean Jacques Rousseau, the bloody hand that drew from the womb of time the body whose soul Rousseau had created.
Heinrich Heine 1797 - 1856
1797 - 1856
What Cato did, and Addison approved Cannot be wrong.
Eustace Budgell 1686 - 1737
Suicide note : Knowles, E. (1999). The Oxford dictionary of quotations. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
1686 - 1737
Suicide note : Knowles, E. (1999). The Oxford dictionary of quotations. Oxford: Oxford University Press.