"One has only to contemplate the magnitude of this task to concede that the spontaneous generation of a living organism is impossible. Yet here we are-as a result, I believe, of spontaneous generation."

-- George Wald

#Believe Quotes #Tasks Quotes #Generations Quotes

“When a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian.”

Source : Shailer Mathews (2006). “The Spiritual Interpretation of History”, p.31, Cosimo, Inc.
“It's my party and I'll die if I want to!”
“If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.”

Source : "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 6: The Cynics". Book by Diogenes Laërtius translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925.
“Have you ever considered that there isn't a safe time to be around you?”
“Bryzgalov isn’t just a running comedy act. He’s one of the league’s most thoughtful players and the fact that he offers the insight he does in his second language is something he’ll never get enough credit for.”
“Once you’re sensitized to the negative effects of unhealthy choices, it gets easier to turn down what used to seem impossible to resist.”
“A scientific or technical study always consists of the following three steps: 1. One decides the objective. 2. One considers the method. 3. One evaluates the method in relation to the objective.”
“At least there's nothing scary about him and hopefully he doesn't see anything scary in me. We go way back, to summer camp. We KNOW each other. People I don't know just make me want to say YIKES! I'll take history over mystery any day of the week.”

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