“Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only ...” — Oliver Wendell Holmes Quote

“Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.”

“Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.”

“Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.”

“Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.”

“Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.”

“A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.”

“The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.”

“Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations.”

“The Internet was supposed to be the greatest tool of global communications and means of sharing knowledge in human history. And it is. But it has also become the most effective instrument of mass surveillance and potentially one of the greatest instruments of totalitarianism in the history of the world.”

“I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.”

“All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.”

“Many of the characters who appear in the pages of the Fourth Gospel are literary creations of its author and were never intended to be understood as real people, who actually lived in history.”