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Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on earth, with a top speed of 120 ft/sec, is a cow that has been dropped out of a helicopter.

I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

The supreme irony of life is that no one gets out of it alive.

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

Never assume the obvious is true.

Curiosity killed the cat, but for awhile I was a suspect.

We are but a drop of water in a pool filled with diversity.

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. - Life and Letters of Thomas Huxley.

To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

If the gods do evil then they are not gods.

All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.

When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?

The difference between a professional person and a technician is that a technician knows everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and his place in the scheme of things.

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

All rising to great place is by winding stair.

The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so.

History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.

Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil.