Kirimina Quotes & Sayings

Before you can ask 'Is Darwinian theory correct or not?', You have to ask the preliminary question 'Is it clear enough so that it could be correct?'. That's a very different question. One of my prevailing doctrines about Darwinian theory is 'Man, that thing is just a mess. It's like looking into a room full of smoke.' Nothing in the theory is precisely, clearly, carefully defined or delineated. It lacks all of the rigor one expects from mathematical physics, and mathematical physics lacks all the rigor one expects from mathematics. So we're talking about a gradual descent down the level of intelligibility until we reach evolutionary biology. — David Berlinski

You don't notice the light without a bit of shadow. — Libba Bray

One of the great movements in my lifetime among educated people is the need to commit themselves to action. Most people are not satisfied with giving money; we also feel we need to work. — Peter Drucker

I've got a group who can't play music, one bad comedian plus boyfriend, a nervous breakdown calling himself a magician, two coachloads of 70-year-old religious maniacs looking for a fight and a fancy-dress contest that nobody knew about. — Alan Bleasdale

In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state. — Peter L. Berger

Let the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil fall, soundless in the moldering woods. — Rudy Rucker

The idea of psychedelic societies is something new. And it doesn't necessarily mean that everyone takes the drug. It merely means that the complexity and the mysteriousness of mind are centered in the consciousness of the civilization as the mystery which it comes from and which it must relate to in order to be relevant. — Terence McKenna

It was because of my deep concerns about nuclear weapons that I went to Hiroshima. And then I was astounded in Hiroshima to find that nobody had really studied it. — Robert Jay Lifton

One of the great things about a TV series is that it's different to a movie - in a movie you obviously know the beginning, the middle and the end of what you're going to do. With a TV series it's unfolding, and you're discovering with every episode. — Dylan Walsh

Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean. — Aristotle.

Optimism is the staunchest worshipper of life. — Kedar Joshi

Crying is right at hand in the smothering dark, closed inside someone else, when you see how everything you can ever accomplish will end up as trash. — Chuck Palahniuk

Partitioning Iraq is inevitable, as shown by history. — Joe Biden

A large family makes you accept sharing your parents. — Martha Reeves

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors. — Johann Georg Zimmermann