September 10

Evolutionists make no claim for perpetual truth, though creationists often do (and then attack us for a style of argument that they themselves favor). In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. ~ Stephen Jay Gould (date of birth)

• 3 Kalki 16:34, 30 August 2005 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
• 3 InvisibleSun 02:30, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 22:14, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Each of the major sciences has contributed an essential ingredient in our long retreat from an initial belief in our own cosmic importance. Astronomy defined our home as a small planet tucked away in one corner of an average galaxy among millions; biology took away our status as paragons created in the image of God; geology gave us the immensity of time and taught us how little of it our own species has occupied. ~ Stephen Jay Gould (born 10 September 1941)

• 3 Kalki 16:34, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 02:30, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 22:14, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

We inhabit a complex world. Some boundaries are sharp and permit clean and definite distinctions. But nature also includes continua that cannot be neatly parceled into two piles of unambiguous yeses and noes. Biologists have rejected, as fatally flawed in principle, all attempts by anti-abortionists to define an unambiguous 'beginning of life,' because we know so well that the sequence from ovulation or spermatogenesis to birth is an unbreakable continuum—and surely no one will define masturbation as murder. ~ Stephen Jay Gould (born 10 September 1941)

• 3 Kalki 16:34, 30 August 2005 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
• 2 InvisibleSun 02:30, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
• 1 because I'm not too fond of seeing a quote dealing with masturbation as QOTD. But the message is rather understandable. Zarbon 22:14, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

We fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them. ~ Cyril Connolly (born September 10, 1903)

• 3 InvisibleSun 02:30, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
• 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:47, 31 August 2012 (UTC) 3 Kalki 16:54, 9 September 2007 (UTC) but still with a lean toward 3 — there just are many more on the page that I prefer more.
• 3 because this is very true. And as Yoda of Star Wars described it so well, fear leads to the dark side, something I find exquisitely full of moral worth. Zarbon 22:14, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

'Dry again?' said the Crab to the Rock-Pool. 'So would you be,' replied the Rock-Pool, 'if you had to satisfy, twice a day, the insatiable sea.' ~ Cyril Connolly

• 3 InvisibleSun 02:30, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 16:54, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 22:14, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

A stone lies in a river; a piece of wood is jammed against it; dead leaves, drifting logs, and branches caked with mud collect; weeds settle there, and soon birds have made a nest and are feeding their young among the blossoming water plants. Then the river rises and the earth is washed away. The birds depart, the flowers wither, the branches are dislodged and drift downward; no trace is left of the floating island but a stone submerged by the water; — such is our personality. ~ Cyril Connolly

• 4 InvisibleSun 02:30, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 16:54, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 22:14, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

It is after creation, in the elation of success, or the gloom of failure, that love becomes essential. ~ Cyril Connolly (born 10 September 1903)

• 3 Kalki 12:14, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 00:41, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 22:14, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning. ~ Cyril Connolly (born 10 September 1903)

• 3 Kalki 12:14, 10 September 2006 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
• 3 InvisibleSun 00:41, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 22:14, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to. ~ Carl Van Doren

• 2 Zarbon 19:15, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:21, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 23:07, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

The tree of liberty only grows when watered by the blood of tyrants. ~ Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac

• 2 Zarbon 19:15, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:21, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
• 1 Kalki 23:07, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

It is only the dead who do not return. ~ Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac

• 2 Zarbon 19:15, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:21, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
• 1 Kalki 23:07, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

I carry on in my own narrow little tunnel and we have very different experiences of life even though we live together. ~ Siobhan Fahey

• 2 Zarbon 19:15, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:21, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 23:07, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

If this world is wearing thin
And you're thinking of escape
I'll go anywhere with you
Just wrap me up in chains
But if you try to go alone
Don't think I'll understand

(Stay) Stay with me
~ Siobhan Fahey ~

• 3 Kalki 23:11, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Happiness is … the grace of being permitted to unfold … all the spiritual powers planted within us. ~ Franz Werfel

• 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:11, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable. ~ Mary Oliver

• 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 14:48, 7 September 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed. ~ Mary Oliver

• 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 14:48, 7 September 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. ~ Mary Oliver

• 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 14:48, 7 September 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird — equal seekers of sweetness ~ Mary Oliver

• 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 14:48, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

I don't want to end up simply having visited this world. ~ Mary Oliver

• 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 14:48, 7 September 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in the haystack of light. ~ Mary Oliver

• 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 14:48, 7 September 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it’s done right, is a kind of holiness. ~ Mary Oliver

• 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 14:48, 7 September 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? ~ Mary Oliver

• 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 14:48, 7 September 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Our idea of anything is our idea of its sensible effects; and if we fancy that we have any other we deceive ourselves, and mistake a mere sensation accompanying the thought for a part of the thought itself. It is absurd to say that thought has any meaning unrelated to its only function. ~ Charles Sanders Peirce

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