Thomas Dwight famous quotes

We have now the remarkable spectacle that just when many scientific men are agreed that there is no part of the Darwinian system that is of any great influence, and that, as a whole, the theory is not only unproved, but impossible, the ignorant, half-educated masses have acquired the idea that it is to be accepted as a fundamental fact.
-- Thomas Dwight

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He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back

We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?

No one man is superior to the game.

Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.

The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.

A false idea is not only one which is absolutely subjective but one which is absolutely objective.

The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.

Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened.

I want to leave my readers with a sequence of ideas/phrases that makes them question something they'd taken for granted. Or that confuses them to the point that they laugh, but contains one or two phrases/lines that stick in their minds.

Once a sage asked why scholars always flock to the doors of the rich, whilst the rich are not inclined to call at the doors of scholars. ‘The scholars‘ he answered , ‘are well aware of the use of money, but the rich are ignorant of the nobility of science.’