The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God.

The establishment of Christianity . . . arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years.

I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind.

The last struggles of a great superstition are very frequently the worst.

Carlyle uttered a pregnant truth when he said that the history of any country is in the biographies of the men who made it.

He [Paolo Sarpi] was one of the two foremost Italian statesmen since the Middle Ages, the other being Cavour.

[Cornell University will be] an asylum for Science—where truth shall be sought for truth's sake, not stretched or cut exactly to fit Revealed Religion.

Or you just not ask her.""You might as well slit my throat.

The purpose of karma yoga is to transcend the bondage of selfish genes through the service of others.

Do you really want happiness? Then you will have to pay the price of humbling yourself at the foot of the cross and receiving Christ as Savior.

If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.

New ideas emerge of their own free will if they are allowed to.

Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.

My class is not a three ring circus.

Working together in helping nascent democracies in the task of reconstruction, in the task of development is another area where our two countries [India and the USA] can work together.

This notion of public-school doors being barred to God would have confounded not only the founding fathers but also those who attended American public schools as recently as the early 1960s.

Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?