As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against Gods anger but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex. – Adam Sedgwick
No matter how one may think himself accomplished, when he sets out to learn a new language, science, or the bicycle, he has entered a new realm as truly as if he were a child newly born into the world. – Frances Willard, How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle
I dont think its too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you dont wind up dying of some kind of cancer when youre 45 years old. It enrages me that these big cancer-research organizations cant be bothered to man the front lines of environmental protest. – Jello Biafra
If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea. – Salman Rushdie
