As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth.

Prometheus, I have no Titan's might, Yet I, too, must each dusk renew my heart, For daytime's vulture talons tear apart The tender alcoves built by love at night.

Dullard: Someone who looks up a thing in the encyclopedia, turns directly to the entry, reads it, and then closes the book.

Strong blasphemers thrive only when strong believers thrive.

Tomorrow changes the face of reality.

Everybody should fear only one person, and that person should be himself .

Resurrection, like politics, makes strange bedfellows.

The stars above will be below when man has Love.

Caught Beauty , held to light, now apes A good, now evil, thing the shifting sign And spectrum of archaic, psychic shapes.

Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural.

Can imagination act Perpendicular to fact? Can it be a kite that flies Till the Earth , umbrella-wise, Folds and drops away from sight?

Valid questions are better than invalid assumptions.

I just think music is such a beautiful thing. It lifts the heart and buoys up your spirits - all kinds of music.

As long as we have practiced neither concentration nor mindfulness, the ego takes itself for granted and remains its usual normal size, as big as the people around one will allow.

You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.

The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.

A girl asks her doctor, "Doctor, I've forgotten to take my contradictory pill!" The doctor says: "Are you ignorant?" The girl says: "Yes, three months!"

Male science disregards female experiences because it can never share them.

I think the media is very much like the inside-the-Beltway crowd. They're not average Americans themselves. They're under a lot of pressure from editors and publishers.

Parochial schools in the United States are also responsible for educating students from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds, including many who are non-Catholic.

Mathematics is a language plus reasoning. It's like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.