Porteous Department Quotes & Sayings

Aside from the posters, wherever there was room, there were books. Stacks and stacks of books. Books crammed into mismatched shelves and towers of books up to the ceiling. I liked my books. — Megan Crane

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality. — Mahatma Gandhi

Drunk on research, exhilarated by arcane details — Sheridan Hay

It goes without saying that one generally should not try to dissolve disparate creeds into one another, much less into some vague, syncretistic, doctrinally vacuous 'spirituality. — David Bentley Hart

He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible. — Aristotle.

Ava wasn't the poor unsuspecting woman who'd let the wild thing into the house, she was the wild thing's mate, creeping indoors at his side ... — Lauren Gilley

We can now diagnose diseases that haven't even manifested in the patient, and may not until the fifth decade of life - if at all. — Craig Venter