The young specialist in English Lit, ...lectured me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the Universe at last, and in every century they were proved to be wrong. It follows that the one thing we can say about our modern "knowledge" is that it is wrong.

The young specialist in English Lit, ...lectured me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the Universe at last, and in every century they were proved to be wrong. It follows that the one thing we can say about our modern "knowledge" is that it is wrong.

While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.

Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.

To those who are trained in science, creationism seems a bad dream, a sudden coming back to life of a nightmare, a renewed march of an Army of the Night risen to challenge free thought and enlightenment.

I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.

Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted to fact.