Devon's Quote Collection
Thursday, November 26, 2020
"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
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"The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
-Eden Phillpotts
Serious history talks back to slogans.
But in the contest for public attention, slogans usually win. --Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, author of Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History
How did we go from character to personality without realizing that we had sacrificed something meaningful along the way?
--Susan Cain, in Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
--GK Chesterson
