“Just as the line of astronomical thinkers from Copernicus to Newton had destroyed the old astronomy, in which the earth was the center, and the Almighty sitting above the firmament the agent in moving the heavenly bodies about it with his own hands, so now a race of biological thinkers had destroyed the old idea of a Creator minutely contriving and fashioning all animals to suit the needs and purposes of man.” MenNeedsIdeasBodyHandsEarthMovingPurposeLinesAnimalRaceSittingCreatorAstronomyDestroyedSuitsAgentsHeavenlyThinkerAlmightyNewtonFirmamentOld IdeasHeavenly BodiesCopernicus Book:A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom: From Creation to the Victory of Scientific and Literary Methods Source: A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom: From Creation to the Victory of Scientific and Literary Methods
“I'd gone into that restaurant and sat down and the waitress had taken my order and everybody else had seen me with this what must have looked like this creature, this animal, sitting on the top of my head!” OrderAnimalGoneTakenCreaturesSittingDown AndSatRestaurantsWaitress Author:Derek Jacobi
“Happiness Is A Warm Gun not about heroin. A gun magazine was sitting there with a smoking gun on the cover and an article that I never read inside called 'Happiness Is a Warm Gun.' I took it right from there. I took it as the terrible idea of just having shot some animal.” IdeasAnimalTerribleGunShotsSittingWarmMagazinesSmokingArticlesHeroin Author:John Lennon