A man got up [after one of Huxley's 'sermons'] and said 'they had never heard anything like that in Norwich before'. Never 'did Science seem so vast and mere creeds so little'.

William Henry Flower the Anglican too praised evolution as a cleansing solvent, dissolving the dross which had 'encrusted' Christianity 'in the days of ignorance and superstition'.

Perhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion, that emotive feeling for Truth and Beauty, could flourish in the absence of an idolatrous theology.

Aspirations without preparations will simply give you life full of frustrations. Develop yourself today!

Just because something is ubiquitous does not mean that it is innocuous.

The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.

To practice Zen means to realize one's existence in the beauty and clarity of this present moment, rather than letting life unravel in useless daydreaming of the past and future.

If there be a faith that can move mountains, it is faith in one's own power.

No man can be really free in bed with a woman who is not.

One should play and sweat. Life shouldn't be bogged down by books.

One of the main reasons for the conflict in Syria, and the terrorism that it's spawned, is climate change and drought.

Linguistics becomes an ever eerier area, like I feel like I'm in Oz, Just trying to tell it like it was.

I tell my students, it's got to be warm, dry, and noble.