"Science was tearing through the 'fine-spun ecclesiastical cobwebs' to behold a new cosmos, in which our Earth is merely an 'eccentric speck' - a world of evolution 'and unchanging causation'. It invited new ways of thinking. It demanded a new rationale for belief. With science's truths the only accessible ones, 'blind faith' was no longer admirable but 'the one unpardonable sin'."

-- Adrian Desmond

#Thinking Quotes #Eccentric Quotes #Cobwebs Quotes

“What I lack in style and craft, I can make up for in joy and enthusiasm. I like to be around people who are at ease so I like to think the 25-year-old [I] would find me quite an easy-going late-middle-aged hippie.”
“Every woman's man, and every man's woman.”
“Go into emptiness, strike voids, bypass what he defends hit him where he does not expect you.”
“Why do we spend so much of our limited time on this earth focusing on all the things that our eulogies will never cover?”
“Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.”
“Give your intentions in prayer to God, Who knows everyone, even before our birth. And do not ask that everything will be according to your will, because a man does not know what is profitable for him. But say to God: Let Thy will be done! For He does everything for our benefit.”
“They have gone. And the tunnel is about to close. So, boys, I am looking for someone to blame.”
“I've always been obsessed with drums. They fascinate me. Any other instrument - nothing. I play acoustic guitar a bit. But it's always been drums first and foremost. I don't reckon on this Jack-of-all-trades thing. I thing that felling is a lot more important than technique. It's all very well doing a triple paradiddle - but who's going to know you've done it? If you play technically you sound like everybody else. It's being original that counts.”

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