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: June 2024
In a democracy, personal liberties are rarely diminished overnight. Rather, they are …
In a democracy, personal liberties are rarely diminished overnight. Rather, they are lost gradually, by acts of well-meaning people, with good intentions, amid publicapproval. But the subtle loss of freedom is never recognized until the crisis is over and we look back in horror. And then it is too late. Judge Andrew Napolitano
Ocotber 2001
You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. …
You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
Henny Youngman
There is no such thing. Genius, if you like to call it …
There is no such thing. Genius, if you like to call it that, is the gift of work continuously applied. That’s all it is, as I have proved for myself. Guglielmo Marconi
Physicist and inventor of a ‘wireless communications system’ (1874-1937)
There’s nothing more distracting than men with guns…behind you munching …
There’s nothing more distracting than men with guns…behind you munching popcorn. Patti Davis
daughter of former President Reagan, on dating under Secret Service protection, U.S. News and World Report, September 11, 2000
Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare but …
Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare but only those specifically enumerated. Thomas Jefferson
1798, on the meaning of ‘General Welfare’ in the U.S. Constitution.(1743-1826)
Government is a disease masquerading as its own cure. Robert LeFevre …
Government is a disease masquerading as its own cure.
Robert LeFevre
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present …
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse. Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790
Vice President Al Gore’s attempt to speak nerd-talk to computer …
Vice President Al Gore’s attempt to speak nerd-talk to computer programmers has developed into a high-tech faux pas. A message hidden in the programming code for Gore’s presidential campaign Web site touts his support for sharing software codes. But the high tech aficionados who went looking behind the scenes found the entire site is built using products from Microsoft Corp. – a company that refuses toshare its programming code. ‘It’s like he’s saying he’s all for buying American cars and then driving around in a Honda,’ said Jim Jagielski, a core developer of the Apache software that powers most Internet Web sites. Al Gore
San Francisco Co., AP,4-9-99
Style is the art of being yourself … on purpose. Raquel Welch …
Style is the art of being yourself … on purpose.
Raquel Welch