"Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three."

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Source : Asa Gray (1880). “Natural Science and Religion: Two Lectures Delivered to the Theological School of Yale College”

Asa Gray

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“If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything.”
“We are all compelled to take the same road; from the urn of death, shaken for all, sooner or later the lot must come forth. [Lat., Omnes eodem cogimur; omnium Versatur urna serius, ocius Sors exitura.]”
“One musts avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness.”
“The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.”
“I just think there's always room for humanity in acting, one can only hope, so when you bring in the whole life of a person that's playing a character, then surprises happen and are allowed to happen, and so it makes it more interesting.”

Source : "More Insight From Lisa Edelstein". EveryJoe Interview, www.everyjoe.com. May 12, 2008.
“I do not believe in God. It seems to me that theists of all kinds have very largely failed to make their concept of a deity intelligible; and to the extent that they have made it intelligible, they have given us no reason to think that anything answers to it.”
“There's no rage like old lady rage, just as there's no tenderness like old lady tenderness.”
“A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.”

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