True sport is always a duel, a duel with nature, with one's own fear, with one's own fatigue, a duel in which the body and the mind are strengthened.
Neutrinos have mass? i didn't even know they're Catholic!" Robert to Vittoria
But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its awesome power?
The Bible, as we know it today, was collated by the pagan Roman Emperor Constantine the Great
Proof. . . was a conclusion built on a pyramid of facts, a broad base of accepted information on which more specific assertions were made.
Madness breeds madness.
Chaos was the natural law of the universe. Indifference was the engine of entropy. Man's apathy was the fertile ground in which the dark spirits tended their seeds.
I sometimes hear preachers speak of the sad condition of men who live without God in the world, but a scientist who lives without God in the world seems to me worse off than ordinary men.
It's a shame about California, and particularly about L. A. , where they've demolished so many landmarks. It's a bit of a disease there, where if anything is over 30 years old, they sort of knock it down and replace it. It's a strange town, it's this sprawling suburb, and then there's a city, the old town.
Wouldst thou know the lawfulness of the action which thou desirest to undertake, let thy devotion recommend it to Divine blessing: if it be lawful, thou shalt perceive thy heart encouraged by thy prayer; if unlawful, thou shalt find thy prayer discouraged by thy heart. That action is not warrantable which either blushes to beg a blessing, or, having succeeded, dares not present a thanksgiving.
Fidelity is for phonographs