#lds

That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds. ↗

— Mary Astell

#giddy #holds #humour #longer #real

It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#certain #conferred #degree #holds #knowledge

Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical reactions necessary for life. ↗

— Michael Behe

#carries #chemical #chemical reactions #life #living

Yes, but don't forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely. ↗

— Adrian Belew

#band #finest #forget #gets #i

Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. ↗

— Edmund Waller

#leaving #new #old #once #stand

Fields are won by those who believe in the winning. ↗

— Thomas W. Higginson

#fields #those #who #winning #won

Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me. There's that little bit that holds on: 'Well, I'm almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.' ↗

— David Bowie

#always #atheist #because #been #bit

The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep tonight. ↗

— William C. Bryant

#asleep #calm #fields #floods #full

To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language. ↗

— William C. Bryant

#forms #her #him #holds #language

A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty. ↗

— William C. Bryant

#chisel #grows #marble #sculptor #stricken