"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately..."

-- Henry David Thoreau

“The purpose of scientific method is to select a single truth from among many hypothetical truths. That, more than anything else, is what science is all about. But historically science has done exactly the opposite. Through multiplication upon multiplication of facts, information, theories and hypotheses, it is science itself that is leading mankind from single absolute truths to multiple indeterminate, relative ones.”
“Academic success depends on research and publications.”
“The pleasures of relaxed chat, of casual conversation, encourage the ethnographer in everyone”
“I had no particular desire to be a personality like my father, nor was I equipped to be one. I was determined to be my own man, although having the Fairbanks name did make it easier to get into an office to see someone.”
“There is a universal urge to rethink our spirituality in order to give us a new sense of security.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“Early readers assumed the Book of Mormon people ranged up and down North and South America from upstate New York to Chili. A close reading of the text reveals it cannot sustain such an expansive geography.”

Source : Richard Lyman Bushman (2007). “Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling”, p.93, Vintage
“What is needed is a marriage of two impulses, a coupling of the urge to do something positive with the willingness to constantly re-evaluate how effectively our actions lead to our goal - that of ending world hunger ...”
“We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all.”

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