Husni

“With odds standing at 1 chance in 10164 of finding a functional protein among the possible 150-amino-acid compounds, the probability is 84 orders of magnitude (or powers of ten) smaller than the probability of finding the marked particle in the whole universe. Another way to say that is the probability of finding a functional protein by chance alone is a trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion times smaller than the odds of finding a single specified particle among all the particles in the universe.”
― Stephen C. Meyer, Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design

“Modern history is the dialogue between two men: one who believes in God, another who believes he is a god.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“He undressed and, wearing slippers and a robe, went to the bathroom to shave. He turned on the radio. They read the newspapers on the Dominican Voice and Caribbean Radio. Until a few years ago the news bulletins had begun at five. But when his brother Petan, the owner of the Dominican Voice, found out that he woke at four, he moved the newscasts up an hour. The other stations followed suit. They knew he listened to the radio while he shaved, bathed, and dressed, and they were painstakingly careful.”
― mario vargas llosa, The Feast of the Goat

“I do not know the art of being clear to those who do not want to be attentive.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Basic Political Writings