The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. Augustine, (AD 354-430)

A man who works beyond the surface of things, though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth. Edmund Burke, A Philosophical...

Despair has been called the unforgivable sin–not presumably because God refuses to forgive it but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven. Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973

You are the most beautiful girl that has ever lived, and it is worth dying to have kissed you. Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)

But no perfection is so absolute, That some impurity doth not pollute. William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece Ver. 124

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round. William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew

Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science. Henri Poincare

Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science. Gary Zukav, “The Dancing Wu Li Masters”