{"quotes":[{"text":"The stars, they are as the sun. Each star. Every star. And those spheres- they are worlds, realms, each one different yet the same.","author":"Steven Erikson","tags":["astronomy","science"],"id":128,"author_id":"Steven+Erikson"},{"text":"If we are ever in doubt what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.","author":"John Lubbock","tags":["advice","decisions","doubt","future","inspirational","planning","rule","science","tomorrow"],"id":159,"author_id":"John+Lubbock"},{"text":"The belief that personality is mysterious and irreducible has no scientific warrant, and is accepted chiefly because it is flattering to our human self esteem.","author":"Bertrand Russell","tags":["philosophy","science","self"],"id":280,"author_id":"Bertrand+Russell"},{"text":"Science has made many advances in my lifetime, but the instrument has yet to be invented that can see clearly into the marriage of a man and a woman.","author":"Guillermo del Toro","tags":["experience","introspective","life","life-experience","life-experiences","marriage","musing","musings","science","statement-of-fact"],"id":335,"author_id":"Guillermo+del+Toro"},{"text":"...Our brains are minuscule fragments of the universe, much too small to hold all the facts of the world but not too idle to speculate about them.","author":"Valentino Braitenberg","tags":["brain","science","universe"],"id":381,"author_id":"Valentino+Braitenberg"},{"text":"God created… light anddark, heaven and hell—science claims the same thing as religion, that the Big Bang createdeverything in the universe with an opposite.“Including matter itself, antimatter.","author":"Dan Brown","tags":["antimatter","big-bang","claims","dark","everything","heaven","hell","light","matter","opposite","opposites","religion","science","the-big-bang","theories","theory","theory-of-everything"],"id":423,"author_id":"Dan+Brown"},{"text":"People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers.","author":"Neil deGrasse Tyson","tags":["america","big-bang","big-bang-theory","church-and-state","creation","creationism","dinosaurs","education","evolution","first-amendment","freedom","freedom-of-religion","intelligent-design","letters","literacy","new-jersey","new-york-times","noah-s-ark","religion","science","scientific-literacy","teachers","teaching"],"id":533,"author_id":"Neil+deGrasse+Tyson"},{"text":"It is not necessary to be large to be a perfectly good arthropod (or mollusc, come to that).","author":"Richard Fortey","tags":["motivational","science"],"id":735,"author_id":"Richard+Fortey"},{"text":"Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.","author":"Theodosius Dobzhansky","tags":["biology","evidence","evolution","natural-selection","science","sense"],"id":830,"author_id":"Theodosius+Dobzhansky"},{"text":"There is no greater crime against humanity than usury.","author":"Compton Gage","tags":["books","death","education","faith","fear","funny","god","happiness","hope","humor","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","knowledge","life","life-lessons","love","motivational","philosophy","poetry","relationships","religion","romance","science","spirituality","success","truth","wisdom","writing"],"id":847,"author_id":"Compton+Gage"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":5391,"pages":540,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}