“Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.”

“The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.”

“The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.”

“Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.”

“Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.”

“Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.”

“July 24, 6:03 A.M.The laundry was warm and the rafters were firm, and Michael Holzapfel jumped from the chair as if it were a cliff...Michael Holzapfel knew what he was doing. He killed himself for...”

“A book is a suicide postponed.”

“How much can you really trust the promise of a suicidal father?”

“We have to make holiness our creed”

“Sometimes dead is better”

“Any profession of faithentrusts the mind and heart to a truth that cannot be proven but can be lived.”