The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Thomas Henry Huxley.
“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun ...”
“The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.”
“What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.”
“With theology as a code of dogmas which are to be believed, or at any rate repeated, under penalty of present or future punishment, or as a storehouse of anaesthetics for those who find the pains o...”
“Wherever sufficiently numerous series of the remains of any given group, which has endured for a long space of time, are carefully examined, their morphological relations are never in discordance w...”
“I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.”
“The world's not getting any stranger.We are!”
“Don't get caught in "Waiting". When I 'Get This' then I will be able to fully 'Live'. Escape the time dominant mind by fully being here 'NOW'.”
“It's not the having, it's the getting.”
“Hearts aren't handcuffs and people aren't prisons. When you feel it's time for you to leave, you leave. You neither need to wait to be released, nor ask for permission.”
“I am going to read... but from where to start - is the biggest question in the world.”
“What we are going to offer is not a one-way communication, but one-to-one communication.”