Quotes of: Edgar-allan-poe Keyword

When challenged by a zealous Popperian to say how evolution could ever be falsified, J. B. S. Haldane famously growled: 'Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian.

The God Delusion

If this dysfunctional family was the best Sodom had to offer by way of morals, some might begin to feel a certain sympathy with God and his judicial brimstone.

The God Delusion

To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program.

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

Friends disappear or they are powerless. This is what misfortune means an acid test of friendship. I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.

Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

It is interesting to wonder whether taxonomists of the future may regret the way our generation messed around with genomes.

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

For there is no friend like a sister In calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, To fetch one if one goes astray, To lift one if one totters down, To strengthen whilst one stands

Goblin Market and Other Poems

A transference neurosis corresponds to a conflict between ego and , a corresponds to that between between ego and super-ego, and a psychosis to that between ego and outer world.

General Psychological Theory

The so-called sensitivity of neurotics develops along with their egotism; they cannot bear for other people to flaunt the sufferings with which they are increasingly preoccupied themselves.

The Guermantes Way

We do not need to go out and find love; rather, we need to be still and let love discover us.

Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

...the only difference between a young person at the height of their exuberance and a very old person who is frail and physically wasted is time.

Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and creative our time will become.

To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings

The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened

The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design

The ancient rhythms of the earth have insinuated themselves into the rhythms of the human heart. The earth is not outside us; it is within: the clay from where the tree of the body grows.

Beauty: The Invisible Embrace

What's Management up to?" I whispered to Bennett. "My guess is a new acronym," he whispered. "Departmental Unification Management Business." He wrote down the ltters on his legal pad. "D.U.M.B.

Bellwether

Management cares about only one thing. Paperwork. They will forgive almost anything else - cost overruns, gross incompetence, criminal indictments - as long as the paperwork's filled out properly. And in on time.

Bellwether

A cool breeze stirred my hair at that moment, as the night wind began to come down from the hills, but it felt like a breath from another world.

For the Blood is the Life and Other Stories

Around, around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo.

Collected Poems, 1917-1982

And here face down beneath the sun And here upon earth's noonward height To feel the always coming on The always rising of the night

Collected Poems, 1917-1982