The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.
-- Mark Twain
Monday, June 09, 2008
Quote of the Day
Sunday, June 08, 2008
Quote of the Day
... we must counterpose the overwhelming judgment provided by consistent observations and inferences by the thousands. The earth is billions of years old and its living creatures are linked by ties of evolutionary descent. Scientists stand accused of promoting dogma by so stating, but do we brand people illiberal when they proclaim that the earth is neither flat nor at the center of the universe? Science *has* taught us some things with confidence! Evolution on an ancient earth is as well established as our planet's shape and position. Our continuing struggle to understand how evolution happens (the "theory of evolution") does not cast our documentation of its occurrence -- the "fact of evolution" -- into doubt.
-- Stephen Jay Gould, "The Verdict on Creationism", The Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. XII No. 2.
Saturday, June 07, 2008
Quote of the Day
The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.
-- Dave Barry
Friday, June 06, 2008
Quote of the Day
I don't think I'm alone when I say I'd like to see more and more planets fall under the ruthless domination of our solar system.
-- Jack Handey
Thursday, June 05, 2008
Quote of the Day
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
-- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
Quote of the Day
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
-- Sir Arthur Eddington
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
Monday, June 02, 2008
Quote of the Day
As long as people are still having premartial sex with many anonymous partners while at the same time experimenting with mind-expanding drugs in a consequence-free environment, I'll be sound as a pound!
-- Austin Powers
Sunday, June 01, 2008
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