You can get all A's and still flunk life.

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great...

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great...

Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world....

Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world....

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness...

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness...

What she didn't understand, she being spiritual and seeing religion as spirit, was that it...

What she didn't understand, she being spiritual and seeing religion as spirit, was that it...

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.

Why it is that of all the billions and billions of strange objects in the...

Why it is that of all the billions and billions of strange objects in the...

'Impossible' is not a scientific term.

'Impossible' is not a scientific term.

Creativity in science could be described as the act of putting two and two together...

Creativity in science could be described as the act of putting two and two together...

Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring...

Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring...

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires...

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires...

Spots are on the surface of the solar body where they are produced and also...

Spots are on the surface of the solar body where they are produced and also...

The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't

The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to...

To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to...

Science cannot stop while ethics catches up - and nobody should expect scientists to do...

Science cannot stop while ethics catches up - and nobody should expect scientists to do...

If all the atoms in the universe were transformed into breasts, there would still not...

If all the atoms in the universe were transformed into breasts, there would still not...

When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he...

When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he...