"Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life."

“Gone! ...And you and I quite crestfallen.”

“Why, exactly, are scientists supposed to accord "respect" to a bunch of ancient fables that are not only ludicrous on their face, but motivate so much opposition to science?”

Source : "Nicholas Wade’s Ridiculous Prescription for Curing Creationism". "Why Evolution is True" blog by Jerry Coyne, whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com. November 28, 2012.

“In mathematical quarters, the regular division of the plane has been considered theoretically. ... [Mathematicians] have opened the gate leading to an extensive domain, but they have not entered this domain themselves. By their very nature they are more interested in the way in which the gate is opened than in the garden lying behind it.”

“a setback is a setup for a comeback”

“Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?”

“The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.”

“Black History Month is dedicated to heroes that paved the way for Black people. It's a month that's very imperative because it gives those who lack the knowledge of our heroes a chance to gain insight. It's not just about the month, it's about the years that it took for us to get to this one month and it's beyond placing a value on how much Black History Month really means to me.”

“Ingratitude is the frost that nips the flower even as it opens, that shrivels the generous apple on the branch, that freezes the fountain in mid-flow and numbs the hand, even in the very act of giving. It is a sin of silence, absence and omission, as winter's sin is a lack of light; a sin against charity, which otherwise warms the heart and, in the truest sense, makes the world turn.”

Source : "Why the ‘My Job Is Harder’ Fight Isn’t a Battle You Want to Win" by Lisa Earle McLeod, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 29, 2014.