Famous quotes containing the words jennings, bryan, fighting, theory and/or evolution:
“McCoy: That sharks been following us ever since the surgeon died, waiting for the burial. Couldnt I have a musket to shoot it, sir?
Fletcher Christian: Take the deck, McCoy. Ill get the keys to the arms chest.
McCoy: Get two muskets, sir. Id like to shoot that shark on board.”
—Talbot Jennings (18961985)
“Do you know I believe that [William Jennings] Bryan will force his nomination on the Democrats again. I believe he will either do this by advocating Prohibition, or else he will run on a Prohibition platform independent of the Democrats. But you will see that the year before the election he will organize a mammoth lecture tour and will make Prohibition the leading note of every address.”
—William Howard Taft (18571930)
“So thats our new flag. The thing weve been fighting forthirteen stripes for the colonies and thirteen stars in a circle for the union.”
—Lamar Trotti (18981952)
“The great tragedy of sciencethe slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (18251895)
“The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)