DECALOGUE, n. A series of commandments, ten in number - just enough to permit an intelligent selection for observance, but not enough to embarrass the choice.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Twice – Once too often.

Evolutionary biology is genuinely scientific, but more than that it opens the door to a world more marvellous than any Christian fundamentalist has ever read into the pages of the Bible.

REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work upon a book, and so read out of it/ The qualities that you have first read into it.

Theology is a thing of unreason altogether, an edifice of assumptions and dreams, a superstructure without a substructure