"Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology."

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Source : "This milquetoast consensus is unnerved by radical faith" by Tristram Hunt, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2007.

Terry Eagleton

#Book Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Bird Quotes

“A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.”
“Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.”

Source : "Fictional character: President Merkin Muffley". "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", www.imdb.com. 1964.
“Most of my nightmares that jolt me awake either involve the cosmos or something completely out of human control. In reality, I worry more about nuclear war, or war in general.”

Source : "Filmmaker on 'Seeking a Friend's' origins". Interview with Mike Ayers, www.cnn.com. June 23, 2012.
“You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it.”

Source : Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.45, Vanderbilt University Press
“Elegance is all in the mind of the wearer.”
“Wine is like women. It tempts you; it comforts you; it confuses you and can even turn on you when you least expect it. It can be your friend one day and your enemy the next.”
“I will fill myself with the desert and the sky. I will be stone and stars, unchanging and strong and safe. The desert is complete; it is spare and alone, but perfect in its soltitude. I will be the desert.”
“Every one's abilities may be increased or strengthened by a kind of culture.”

Source : Jacob Abbott (1835). “The Young Christian: Or, a Familiar Illustration of the Principles of Christian Duty”, p.303

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