Roger J. Wendell
Defending 3.8 Billion Years of Organic EvolutionSM
Quote Quiz
Which famous person said this?
Archive (from my main page):
| 1st Quarter 2009 |
"A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite." Answer: - Leo Tolstoy |
| 4th Quarter 2008 |
"Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist." Answer: - Economist Kenneth Boulding |
| 3rd Quarter 2008 |
"You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any kinds of dogmas or goals, it's because these dogmas or goals are in doubt." Answer: - Robert M. Pirsig, in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, p. 134 |
| 2nd Quarter 2008 |
"I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means." Answer: - Clarence Seward Darrow |
| 1st Quarter 2008 |
"The human mind delights in finding pattern - so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of thought lies so deeply within the soul of a small creature trying to make sense of a complex world not constructed for it." Answer: - Stephen Jay Gould in his book, The Flamingo's Smile, p. 199 |
| 4th Quarter 2007 |
"Let us put our minds together and see what life we will make for our children."
Answer: - The great Lakota leader, Tatanka Iotanka (Sitting Bull) |
| 3rd Quarter 2007 |
"I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, ..."
Answer: - Henry David Thoreau from the Economy chapter of Walden, p. 21 |
| 2nd Quarter 2007 |
"Newton, verzeih’ mir’" (Newton, forgive me)
Answer: - Albert Einstein reflecting on the absolutes of space and time that his theory of relativity had shattered... |
| 1st Quarter 2007 |
"With a country so rich in natural resources, talent, and labor power the system can afford to distribute just enough wealth to just enough people to limit discontent to a troublesome minority. It is a country so powerful, so big, so pleasing to so many of its citizens that it can afford to give freedom of dissent to the small number who are not pleased." Answer: - Howard Zinn in his book, A People's History of the United States, pp. 570-571 |
| 4th Quarter 2006 |
"If we do not impose limits on our population growth, life as we know it, on this planet, will no longer be possible. Even if we could, theoretically, feed many more times the number of people than those on the planet today, how many of us would like to live on a planet where villages, towns, and cities meet and merge in one great urban sprawl across the face of the globe?"
Answer: - Jane Goodall in her book, Harvest For Hope pp. 210-211 |
| 3rd Quarter 2006 |
"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices." Answer: - Adam Smith in his book, The Wealth of Nations Volume one, book one, chapter ten |
| 2nd Quarter 2006 |
"There are so many, many ways in which we are destroying the planet. And once we understand, once we care, then we have to do something." Answer: - Jane Goodall in her book, Harvest for Hope (A Guide to Mindful Eating), p. xix |
| 1st Quarter 2006 |
"I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?" Answer: - Aldo Leopold in his book, A Sand County Almanac, p. 158 |
| 4th Quarter 2005 |
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." Answer: - Carl Sagan in his succinct rendition of David Hume's 1748 essay on miracles |
| 3rd Quarter 2005 |
"The tree that moves some to tears of joy is to others only a green thing that stands in the way." Answer: - William Blake |
| 2nd Quarter 2005 |
"A tree is a tree. How many more do you have to look at?" Answer: - Ronald Reagan, 1966, opposing expansion of Redwood National Park as governor of California |
| 1st Quarter 2005 |
"I'm honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein." Answer: - George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., May 25, 2004 |
| 4th Quarter 2004 |
"The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything." Answer: - Joseph Stalin |
| 3rd Quarter 2004 |
"The farther one travels, the less one knows, the less one really knows...."
Answer: - George Harrison |
| 2nd Quarter 2004 |
"...Every form of life is unique, warranting respect regardless of its worth
to man, and, to accord other organisms such recognition, man must be guided by
a moral code of action. . . . Nature shall be respected and its essential processes
shall not be disrupted. . . ." Answer: - part of the World Charter for Nature, as adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, October 1982. |
| 1st Quarter 2004 |
"What this says to me is that too many whites are getting away with drug use, too many whites are getting away with drug sales, too many whites are getting away with trafficking in this stuff. The answer to this disparity is not to start letting people out of jail because we're not putting others in jail who are breaking the law. The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too."
Answer: - Rush Limbaugh (October 5, 1995 show transcript) |
| 4th Quarter 2003 |
"What good fortune, for those that are in power, that people do not think." (More accurately; "Was Glük fü die, die in der Energie sind, diese Leute nicht denken!")
Answer: Adolf Hitler |
| 3rd Quarter 2003 |
"It's amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity, and incumbency."
Answer: George W. Bush, June 14, 2001, speaking to Swedish Prime Minister Goran Persson, unaware that a live television camera was still rolling... |
| 2nd Quarter 2003 |
"There is something feeble, and a little contemptible, about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths."
Answer: Bertrand Russell in Human Society in Ethics & Politics |
| 1st Quarter 2003 |
"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."
Answer: Frank Lloyd Wright |
| 4th Quarter 2002 |
"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions,
they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
Answer: President John Adams |
| 3rd Quarter 2002 |
"Never mistake motion for action."
Answer: Ernest Hemingway |
| 2nd Quarter 2002 |
"What you have to tell your boy is there's evil everywhere."
Answer: Dr. Laura Schlessinger from her March 07, 2002 broadcast |
| 1st Quarter 2002 |
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
Answer: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| 4th Quarter 2001 |
"It's a fabulous land, we're lucky to live in it."
Answer: U.S. President George W. Bush - 09/27/2001 |
| 3rd Quarter 2001 |
"There can be no greater good than the quest for peace, and no finer purpose than the preservation of freedom."
Answer: U.S. President Ronald Reagan - 1985 |
| 2nd Quarter 2001 |
"Therefore, we must respect and appreciate the value of all the different world religious traditions."
Answer: His Holiness The Dalai Lama - page 295, The Art of Happiness by Howard C. Cutler, M.D. |
| 1st Quarter 2001 |
'Christianity will go,' he said. 'It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first-rock 'n' roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.'
Answer: John Lennon in Maureen Cleave's "How does a Beatle Live? John Lennon Lives Like This" interview in the London Evening Standard - March 4, 1966 |
| 4th Quarter 2000 |
Hypothesis non fingo (I frame no hypotheses)
Answer: Sir Isaac Newton |
| 3rd Quarter 2000 |
"... My [personal fortune] is society's resouces and will be given away..."
Answer:
Bill Gates |
| Spring 2000 |
"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a psychopathic criminal."
Answer:
Albert Einstein |
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