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“The underlying reason for convergence seems to be that all organisms are under constant scrutiny of natural selection and are also subject to the constraints of the physical and chemical factors that severely limit the action of all inhabitants of the biosphere. Put simply, convergence shows that in a real world not all things are possible.”
Source : "The Crucible of Creation". Book by Simon Conway Morris, 1998.
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“The improvement of life was only accomplished to the extent to which it was based on a change of consciousness, that is, to the extent to which the law of violence was replaced in men's consciousness by the law of love.”
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“Astronomy was the cradle of the natural sciences and the starting point of geometrical theories.”
Source : Cornelius Lanczos (1970). “Space through the ages: The evolution of geometrical ideas from Pythagoras to Hilbert and Einstein”
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“My world we humans we’re just pawns on an immortal chessboard.”
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“No man can make good during working hours who does the wrong thing outside of working hours.”
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“Learn to hide your need and show your skill.”
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“The Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might be found in the fact that no merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight.”
Source : "The Life of Hilaire Belloc". Book by Robert Speaight, 1957.
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“The good television of today is probably better than the best television of the old days. The bad television of today is worse. It is not only bad, it is damaging, meretricious, seedy and cynical.”
Source : "Savaging of 'seedy and cynical' TV" by Matt Wells, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2004. 
