Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things.

Philip K. Dick

But time given to wishing for what can't be is not only spent, but wasted, and for all that we waste we shall be accountable.

Penelope Fitzgerald

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

Plutarch

Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.

Paul Muldoon

As it fell upon a day in the merry month of May, sitting in a pleasant shade which a grove of myrtles made.

Richard Barnfield

I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.

Robert Bridges

All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things.

Robert Creeley

Don't name it, as they say, because instantly you offer it to this peculiar authority.

Robert Creeley

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

Richard Dawkins

Biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose.

Richard Dawkins

The universe doesn't owe us condolence or consolation; it doesn't owe us a nice warm feeling inside.

Richard Dawkins

My thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot.

Richard Dawkins

There are many very educated people who are religious, but they're not creationists.

Richard Dawkins

Our animal origins are constantly lurking behind, even if they are filtered through complicated social evolution.

Richard Dawkins

For me, the level at which natural selection causes the phenomenon of adaptation is the level of the replicator - the gene.

Richard Dawkins

I can handle heckling on evolution because it's my own field.

Richard Dawkins

There's clearly a lot of Ludditism, and you see it in all the hysteria about every scientific story.

Richard Dawkins

The supernatural is ubiquitous in children's entertainment, from Grimm and Hans Andersen to Disney and 'Harry Potter.'

Richard Dawkins

Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it.

Richard Dawkins

I've never been the sort of firebrand that I've been made out to be. I'm actually quite a mild person.

Richard Dawkins

I'm afraid the Internet is filled with people using really very intemperate language.

Richard Dawkins