"As the idea imparted by the term Cataclysm, Catastrophe, or Revolution, is extremely vague, and may comprehend any thing you choose to imagine, it answers for the time very well as an explanation; that is, it stops further inquiry. But it also has had the disadvantage of effectually stopping the advance of science, by involving it in obscurity and confusion."

-- George Julius Poulett Scrope

#Science Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
“We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.”
“The pressure gets worse the older you get. The hole starts to look the size of a Bayer aspirin.”
“The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.”

Source : "Ted McGinley reflects on faith, the meaning of the Cross and playing a pastor in 'Do You Believe?'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.ff.org.
“I refer to the misunderstanding of Soviet Russia as an aggressive power, militaristically and ideologically bent upon world domination 'seeing', to quote a recent speech of the British Prime Minister, 'the rest of the world as its rightful fiefdom.' How any rational person, viewing objectively the history of the last thirty-five years, could entertain this 'international misunderstanding' challenges, if it does not defeat, comprehension. The notion has no basis in fact... If Russia is bent on world conquest, she has been remarkably slothful and remarkably unsuccessful.”
“I'm not versed enough in constitutional law to run for office. I'd have to go back to school or something.”
“There's a spectrum of possibilities. You can underline the bass, or not at all. You can create something that is well-anchored or that is floating and never arriving. You can make a melodic line dominant or barely visible. The conducting gesture is akin to painting or sculpture.”

Source : "There Will Be Joy". Interview with Laurence Equilbey, logger.believermag.com. There Will Be Joy.
“Oh, of course," said Ron, clapping a hand to his forehead. "I forgot we'll be hunting down Voldemort in a mobile library.”

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