I finished your book yesterday. . . Since I read Von Baer’s Essays nine years ago no work on Natural History Science I have met with has made so great an impression on me & I do most heartily thank you for the great store of new views you have given me. . .As for your doctrines I am prepared to go to the Stake if requisite. . .I trust you will not allow yourself to be in any way disgusted or annoyed by the considerable abuse & misrepresentation which unless I greatly mistake is in store for you. . . And as to the curs which will bark and yelp — you must recollect that some of your friends at any rate are endowed with an amount of combativeness which (though you have often & justly rebuked it) may stand you in good stead — I am sharpening up my claws and beak in readiness Thomas Henry Huxley
1825-1895, Letter of T. H. Huxley to Charles Darwin, November 23, 1859, regarding the Origin of Species
Monthly Archives: August 2021
A good lie will have traveled half way around the world while …
A good lie will have traveled half way around the world while the truth is putting on her boots. Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910)
It has been objected also against a bill of rights, that , by …
It has been objected also against a bill of rights, that , by enumerating particular exceptions to the grant of power, it would disparage those rights which were not placed in that enumeration; and it might follow, by implication, that those rights which were not singled out, were intended to be assigned into the hands of the General Government, and were consequently insecure. This is one of the most plausible arguments I have ever heard urged against the admission of a bill of rights unto this system; but, I conceive, that it may be guarded against. I have attempted it, as gentlemen may see by turning to the last clause of the fourth resolution. James Madison
I Annals of Cong. 456 (1834), the clause referred to contains the present Ninth Amendment. (1751-1836)
This liberty you are to stand for, with the hazard not only …
This liberty you are to stand for, with the hazard not only of your goods but of your lives if need be. John Winthrop
First Governor of the Puritans in America
It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it …
It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment — Independence now and Independence forever. Daniel Webster
Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson, Aug. 2, 1826. P. 136. 1782-1852
In 26 states, competency tests for teachers require only minimum standards. Answering …
In 26 states, competency tests for teachers require only minimum standards. Answering 47 out of 104 questions correctly is considered a passing grade, even though no self-respecting teacher would pass a student who answered less than 50% of the questions on an exam correctly… From 1960 to 1980 the number of teachers grew by 57% but the number of principals and supervisors increased by 79%… the number of non-teaching staffers shot up by nearly 500%… for every 100 teachers in California there are 106 ‘non- teaching’ employees… the New York City Board of Education’s high school division decided to track every dollar of the $1.4B… spent in 1988-89… found that the city spent $6107/student, well above the national average, but non-class-room services ate up an astounding $4135 of that. Charles Colson & Jack Eckerd
Charles Colson & Jack Eckerd _Why America Doesn’t Work_
Women are just like a war, there is always another one coming …
Women are just like a war, there is always another one coming along. Sergeant Schultz
Hogan’s Heroes
There are no compacts between lions and men, and wolves and lambs …
There are no compacts between lions and men, and wolves and lambs have no concord. Homer
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find …
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. Galileo
Some of us do not agree with every statement in the official …
Some of us do not agree with every statement in the official platform of our party, but . . . if each segment, each section of our great party were to insist on the complete and unqualified acceptance of its views, if each viewpoint were to be enforced by a Russian-type veto, the Republican Party would not long survive. Barry Goldwater
Barry Goldwater, 1960 (1909-1998)