"The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."

  -Eden Phillpotts

“Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.”

 -Immanuel Kant, in Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose

"The most basic question is not what is best but who shall decide what is best."

 -Thomas Sowell

"Yet the most important thing we can do to improve our future is the most personal: to extend a sense of grace and tolerance toward the people who disagree with us or who are different from us in some way-even those who attack us. This sense of forgive ness starts with each of us."

 Andrew Yang, Forward

"It turns out that the scientist behaves the way the rest of us do when our beliefs are in conflict with the evidence. We become irritated, we pretend the conflict does not exist, or we paper it over with meaningless phrases."

Robert Jastrow, in God and the Astronomers

"To never harbor self-doubt is poison poison for the soul,"

"and these aliens want to inflict their certainties upon us."
-Sadeq, from Charles Stross' Accelerando

“I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children’s story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children’s story.”

-C.S. Lewis in On Three Ways of Writing for Children