Famous quotes containing the words jennings, bryan, fighting, theory and/or evolution:
“Chastity faces them, a destination
For which their whole lives were a preparation.”
—Elizabeth Jennings (b. 1926)
“I think we will live through his term, Archie, and I’ll tell you something, old man, if they don’t stop hammering me, first Bryan for not enforcing the Anti-Trust Law and Wall Street for enforcing it, they may succeed in electing me to another term whether I want it or not.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)
“They were fighting tradition and change. It just wasn’t my time.”
—Autherine Lucy (b. 1929)
“There never comes a point where a theory can be said to be true. The most that one can claim for any theory is that it has shared the successes of all its rivals and that it has passed at least one test which they have failed.”
—A.J. (Alfred Jules)
“The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral; it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)