The problem with intelligent design theory is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable: Not being...

Live simply that others might simply live. Elizabeth Seaton

Each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking, of less able minds–and then confidently embarks on...

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to...

Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction–faith in fiction is a damnable...

The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the scythe. Old Russian saying

An artist cannot do anything slovenly. Jane Austen, Letter to Cassandra, 25 November 1798

A woman should never be trusted with money. Jane Austen, The Watsons

If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world ablaze. St. Catherine of Sienna

[Optimism is] the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst. Voltaire, Candide