Science comits suicide when it adopts a creed. Thomas H. Huxley English biologist (1825 - 1895) Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. Colin Powell US general (1937 - ) There is no gravity. The earth sucks. Graffito Bad spellers of the world, untie! Graffito It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999 British fantasy author The best of us must sometimes eat our words. J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999 British fantasy author She was conscious that the things she did were the things she had always wanted to do. Zelda Fitzgerald, 1922 [S]he refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring. Zelda Fitzgerald, 1922 I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe. James Lileks, The Bleat web log, September 15, 2003 Columnist and Webmaster History never looks like history when you are living through it. John W. Gardner, quoted by Bill Moyers US administrator (1912 - ) |