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- Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been.
- Jim Bishop
- If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
- Judith Hayes
- You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn't necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word.
- Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco
- Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
- George Washington (1732 - 1799)
- Coincidences are a true paradox... on the one hand they seem to be the source of our greatest irrationalities--seeing causal connections when science tells us they aren't there. On the other hand, some of our greatest feats of scientific discovery depend on coincidences.
- Josh Tenenbaum, quoted in "The Power of Coincidence," Psychology Today, July 2004
- A culture is only as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamed by artists.
- L. Ron Hubbard (1911 - 1986), Science of Survival
- There is no national problem in the world today, which cannot be resolved by reason alone.
- L. Ron Hubbard (1911 - 1986), Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health
- Architecture is one part science, one part craft and two parts art.
- David Rutten
- Before I can live with other folks, I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
- Harper Lee (1926 - ), To Kill a Mockingbird
- The truth is, marijuana probably isn't going to make you kill people. Most likely isn't going to fund terrorists, but pot makes you feel fine with being bored and it's when you're bored that you should be learning a new skill or some new science or being creative. If you smoke pot you may grow up to find out that you're not good at anything.
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, My Future Self n' Me, 2002
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