It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: "Their most serious error was to measure the past by the present".

It must be significant that nearly all the evolutionary stories I learned as a student....have now been debunked.

Experts always tend to obscure the obvious.

I want to run the beach's length, because it never ends.

Sedimentation in the past has often been very rapid indeed and very spasmodic. This may be called the "Phenomenon of the Catastrophic Nature of the Stratigraphical Record."

Palaeontologists cannot live by uniformitarianism alone. This may be termed the Phenomenon of the Fallibility of the Fossil Record.

Lake quiets, tired of my lies.

We noticed that, but in reality we have to take it one game at a time.

Salvation does not depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy of grace.

A peaceful nature is the best doctor for an unpeaceful mind!

Experience is an author’s most valuable asset

One of the Christian's biggest fears is appearing 'too Christian'. God forbid, because that's often characterized as god-awful! We want to be one, but without being 'one of them'.

You must be careful. There are things that should never be given up. You must persevere.

Leave the big door open, everyone'll come around.

When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were destined to remain long on board ship!

I would not run as a one-issue candidate. Anybody who does that is declaring himself to be marginal.

For me personally, I need to anticipate pressure and tuck the ball away.

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