The idea that one can go to the fossil record and expect to empirically recover an ancestor-descendant sequence, be it of species, genera, families, or whatever, has been, and continues to be, a pernicious illusion. - Gareth J. Nelson
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically. - Albert Einstein
The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact. - Malcolm Muggeridge