James Gordon Brown

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    The old question of whether there is design is idle. The real question is what is the world, whether or not it have a designer—and that can be revealed only by the study of all nature’s particulars.
    —William James (1842–1910)

    I should be very willing to redress
    Men’s wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes,
    Had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale
    Of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    They won’t come to learn, only to stare. I’ll be a freak in a sideshow: Lazarus the Second! Fifty cents to look, a dollar to touch.
    —Karl Brown (1897–1990)