Todays Thought

Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science. 

-Hal Clement, science fiction author (30 May 1922-2003)

Todays Thought

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away. 

-Walker Percy, author (28 May 1916-1990)

What Hollywood Gets Wrong About Native America

Todays Thought

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. 

-Margaret Fuller, author (23 May 1810-1850)

Todays Thought

I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one's weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can't all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something. 

-Arthur Conan Doyle, physician and writer (22 May 1859-1930)

Todays Thought

When I am asked, "What, in your view, is the worst human rights problem in the world today?" I reply: "Absolute poverty." This is not the answer most journalists expect. It is neither sexy nor legalistic. But it is true. 

-Mary Robinson, 7th President of Ireland (b. 21 May 1944)

Todays Thought

The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. 

-John Stuart Mill, philosopher and economist (20 May 1806-1873)