This view, as a rounded whole and in all its essential elements, has very recently disappeared from science. It died a royal death with Agassiz.

Faith in order, which is the basis of science, cannot reasonably be separated from faith in an Ordainer, which is the basis of religion.

Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present.

I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it.

Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now on that, shapes the course.

It remains to consider what attitude thoughtful men and Christian believers should take respecting them, and how they stand related to beliefs of another order.

In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop.

Yes, it is true that there are times when you do wonder if things are worth it but usually those moments pass as soon as they have come.

This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has become familiar, that of protoplasm.

Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation I could most wish to win.

It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the two, if only they could be seized.

Every tomorrow is an outcome of what I do today, and the beauty of it all is that today is happening all the time.

There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder.

Apakah penampilanku satu-satunya hal yang membuatku berharga? Jika begitu, jangan tatap aku. Wajahku bisa menyembunyikan hati yang palsu.

When it becomes serious, you have to lie.

Are you an idiot, or an idiot?' Gargarin hissed. 'The first one. I really resent being called the second.

Elegance and honesty are two mandatory parameters for any human production.

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

This is a limiting factor in the way we have been able to help, ... We need to determine to what extent does an 'emergency declaration' go.

Absolutely pay off your credit card debt, because a child can always get a loan to go to school, possibly a scholarship, a grant.

Having traveled a lot and met people from different horizons it makes you more humble and ready to listen.