We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a standard scientific treatise, and that the only additions to it were Galileo'a demonstration of Leonardo da Vinci's simple remark that the earth is a moon of the sun, Sir Humphrey Davy's invention of the safety lamp, the discovery of electricity, the application of steam to industrial purposes, and the penny post.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.

The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not.

Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.