

“The very comprehensibility of the world points to an intelligence behind the world. Indeed, science would be impossible if our intelligence were not adapted to the intelligibility of the world. The match between our intelligence and the intelligibility of the world is no accident. Nor can it properly be attributed to natural selection, which places a premium on survival and reproduction and has no stake in truth or conscious thought. Indeed, meat-puppet robots are just fine as the output of a Darwinian evolutionary process.”
― The Design Revolution: Answering the Toughest Questions About Intelligent Design
― The Design Revolution: Answering the Toughest Questions About Intelligent Design

“When the outlook is bright, bring it before their eyes; but tell them nothing when the situation is gloomy.”
― The Art of War
― The Art of War

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
― 100 Love Sonnets
― 100 Love Sonnets

“The only thing about a man that is a man . . . is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.”
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“Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance"? If so, it was a very good plan.”
― The Ring of Solomon
― The Ring of Solomon
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