Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - March 08, 2017
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)  
In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
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Stephen Jay Gould (1941 - 2002)  
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
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Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)  
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
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Robertson Davies  
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