Quotes Jun 5th

In the 'General Scholium" Newton writes: The most beautiful system of sun, planets and comets could only proceed from the council and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. - quoted in - THE SOUL OF SCIENCE by PEARCEY & THAXTON, p.91

Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving. His origin, his growth, his hopes and fears and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collations of jatos. - Bertrand Russell, A Free Man's Worship, - quoted in THE SOUL OF SCIENCE by PEARCEY & THAXTON, p.117

Everything we find difficult we describe as a 'problem'. But difficulties we need to overcome are nt necessarily problems we need to solve. -  Sinclair Ferguson, Maturity,p.57

Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the currency. - E Calvin Beisner, Prosperity and Poverty p. 132

The ruling passion, be it what it will,
The ruling passion conquers reason still.
     --Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
      _Moral Essays_ [1731-1735], Epistle III