"...religion either produces the very best people or the very worst."

“For under certain conditions the chemical atoms emit light waves of a specific length or oscillation frequency - their familiar characteristic spectra - and these can come in the form of electromagnetic waves only from accelerated electric quanta.”

“In a way Poe was a big influence for Conan Doyle to create Sherlock Holmes. I think he really did influence many artist of the time like Baudelaire, who was a big fan of Poe, and who was the one that brought attention to Poe's work in Europe.”

“The duty of the branch is to cling to the vine.”

“Revealed insights should leave us stricken with the knowledge of how little we really know. It should never lead to an emotional arrogance based upon a false assumption that we somehow have all the answers - that we in fact have a corner on truth. For we do not.”

Source : Hugh B. Brown (1999). “An Abundant Life: The Memoirs of Hugh B. Brown”

“...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.”

“Creationists often appeal to the facts of science to support their view, and evolutionists often appeal to philosophical assumptions from outside science.”

“Emotions weren't like washing. There was no call to peg them out for all the world to view.”

Source : Beryl Bainbridge (1989). “An awfully big adventure”, Gerald Duckworth & Company

“I don't have a schedule, but I can write for hours non-stop. If I'm drafting a book, I try and do a chapter a day. I dislike first drafts. Revision is a lot more fun, but it takes years.”

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