Wishful-thinking Quotes

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of the conviction that...

Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of th...

Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand

Everyone— black as well as white— thinks it's going to be better over the next jump of land.

No evidence is powerful enough to force acceptance of a conclusion that is emotionally distasteful.

IV   The bounded is loathed by its possessor. The same dull round even of a universe would soon beco...

... I think this Law, by which I am punished, is both unreasonable in itself, and particularly sever...

Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. ...

Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been ...

In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure, death will. The...

I hoped our lives would continue this way forever, but inevitably the past came knocking. Not the go...

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the...

Rick feels almost the way he used to halfway through his third drink, his favorite moment, the way h...

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian i...

I was thinking as small children think, as if my thoughts or wishes had the power to reverse the nar...