“Evolution is more grounded in my experience than angels.”

“For there are strong grounds for thinking that, in the evolution of thought, magic has preceded religion.”

James Frazer book The Golden Bough

“The evolution of our individual consciousness paves the way toward the evolution of our collective consciousness. This individual-collective evolution, more than anything else, can and must change this world.”

Ervin László (1932) Hungarian musician and philosopher

“It is my own experience … that commentators are far more ingenious at finding meaning than authors are at inserting it.”

Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …

“My total experience of school was mixed, with more darkness than light. Just as my image of society has become.”

Tomas Tranströmer (1931–2015) Swedish poet, psychologist and translator

“Heaven with my angel. It doesn't get any better than this.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

“It is probable that the future will be more limited by the slow evolution of the human animal and the corresponding human laws, social institutions, and organizations than it will be by the rapid evolution of technology.”

Richard Hamming (1915–1998) American mathematician and information theorist

“In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find and continue to find grounds for marriage.”

Robert Anderson (1917–2009) American playwright, screenwriter, and theater producer

“Molecular evolution is not based on scientific authority.. . . There are assertions that such evolution occurred, but absolutely none are supported by pertinent experiments or calculations. Since no one knows molecular evolution by direct experience, and since there is no authority on which to base claims of knowledge, it can truly be said that. . . the assertion of Darwinian molecular evolution is merely bluster.”

Michael J. Behe (1952) American biochemist, author, and intelligent design advocate

“The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese.”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books