Quote of the Day

[southbiochem]

"In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so" Immanuel Kant

[Jovial]

"a car in every garage and a chicken in every pot" (paraphrase; Herbert Hoover)

[southbiochem]

"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."

Kant

[Jovial]

so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chicken.

(The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams)

[southbiochem]

"Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied rather than ridiculed."

Kant

[Jovial]

"I want there to be no peasent in my kingdom so poor that he is unable to have a chicken in his pot every Sunday." (Henri IV of Navarre)

[southbiochem]

[Jovial]

"The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that a more refined view as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken. " (Bertrand Russell)

[southbiochem]

[Jovial]

"This is now a game of chicken with the Beeb." (Tom Kelly)