Quotes that Change your Being - Share your Best

a reply to: DayAfterTomorrow

"Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and beat you with experience." Mark Twain

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. Einstein

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learnfrom a wise answer.  Bruce Lee 

The world only ends when you die. Dad

life is a bitch, then you die.

don't know.

“Darwin’s theory of [evolution] has always been closely linked to evidence from fossils, and probably most people assume that fossils provide a very important part of the general argument that is made in favor of darwinian interpretations of the history of life. Unfortunately, this is not strictly true. . . . the geologic record did not then and still does not yield a finely graduated chain of slow and progressive evolution.” - The Bulletin of Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History, January 1979, Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 22, 23.

“Below this [Cambrian period], there are vast thicknesses of sediments in which the progenitors of the Cambrian forms would be expected. But we do not find them; these older beds are almost barren of evidence of life, and the general picture could reasonably be said to be consistent with the idea of a special creation at the beginning of Cambrian times.” - Paleontologist Alfred Romer, Natural History, October 1959, p. 467.

“To take a line of fossils and claim that they represent a lineage is not a scientific hypothesis that can be tested, but an assertion that carries the same validity as a bedtime story—amusing, perhaps even instructive, but not scientific.”—In Search of Deep Time—Beyond the Fossil Record to a New History of Life, by Henry Gee, pp. 116-117

“The vast majority of artists’ conceptions are based more on imagination than on evidence. . . . Artists must create something between an ape and a human being; the older the specimen is said to be, the more apelike they make it.”—Science Digest, April 1981, p. 41.

originally posted by: whereislogic
“no empirical evidence supports the hypotheses of the spontaneous appearance of life on Earth from nothing but a molecular soup, and no significant advance in scientific knowledge leads in this direction.” - Professor of Biology Alexandre Meinesz, (How Life Began—Evolution’s Three Geneses, by Alexandre Meinesz, translated by Daniel Simberloff, 2008, pp. 30-33, 45.)

Protein synthesis (DNA transcription, translation and folding)

Woe to the one who contends with his Maker,*
For he is just an earthenware fragment
Among the other earthenware fragments lying on the ground!
Should the clay say to the Potter:* “What are you making?”
Or should your work say: “He has no hands”?*

1st *: Or “with the One who formed him.”
2nd *: Or “the One who formed it.”
3rd *: Or possibly, “Or should the clay say: ‘Your work has no handles’?”
Isaiah 45:9, some time after 732 BCE.

For those who will click, please ignore everything after 6 minutes in the 1st video below:

And please ignore everything after 4 minutes in the 2nd part below:


And just to show I can do one-liners as well:

"There is nothing new under the sun." (King Solomon, 607 BCE, Ecclesiastes 1:9)

It is generally believed that light consists of energy particles that have wave properties. To this day, however, man still cannot give a complete answer to the question propounded over three millenniums ago by the Creator of light: “Where, now, is the way by which the light distributes itself?”—Job 38:24.

"Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this system of things? Has not God made the wisdom of the world foolish?" (Paul, 1st century CE, 1 Corinthians 1:20)