Indeed neither life nor science bothers about "essences"-they leave "essences" to metaphysics, which is neither life nor science.

Definitions create conditions.

If those who know why and how neglect to act, those who do not know will act, and the world will continue to flounder.

...no thought, if it be non-mathematical in spirit, can be trusted, and, although mathematicians sometimes make mistakes, the spirit of mathematics is always right and always sound.

You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition's arms.

Be Still My Heart while God is Healing me inside

In an age of constant live connections, the central question of self-examination is drifting from ‘Who are you?’ towards ‘What are you doing?

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.

There are very few films or plays or anything about really happy people with perfect lives.

Marry your daughters betimes, lest they marry themselves.

Though it be said that faith cometh by hearing, yet it is the Spirit that worketh faith in the heart through hearing, or else they are not profited by hearing.

My heart has always been in more up-tempo music you can dance to.

A fecking flamethrower! Why didn't I think of that? Best I came up with was a measly hair dryer.

When he smiled, something strange happened to my insides. It was like they turned to liquid.