Because a doubt is not a denial. Doubt is a powerful tool, and it should be applied to history.

Because a doubt is not a denial. Doubt is a powerful tool, and it should be applied to history.

That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins.

Men must fumble awhile with error to separate it from truth, I think- as long as they don't seize the error hungrily because it has a pleasanter taste.

Bless me Father, I ate a lizard.

The captain looked defensive. "You regard our customs as primitive?"Every society to its own tastes, captain. The wisdom of one society would be folly for another. Who is qualified to judge? Only the universe, which passes the judgment of survival on all peoples.

Speak up, destiny, speak up! Destiny always seems decades away, but suddenly it's not decades away; it's right now. But maybe destiny is always right now, right here, right this very instant, maybe.