William Jennings Bryan/fighting The Theory of Evolution - 1918%e2%80%931925

Famous quotes containing the words william, jennings, bryan, fighting, theory and/or evolution:

    For each age is a dream that is dying,
    Or one that is coming to birth.
    —Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy (1844–1881)

    I’ve never seen a better seaman, but as a man he’s a snake. He doesn’t punish for discipline, he likes to see men crawl. Sometimes I’d like to push his poison down his own throat.
    —Talbot Jennings (1896–1985)

    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)

    ... you have to keep fighting them off and realize that nobody would be interested in attacking you personally unless you were trying to do some things that are bothering them.
    Joycelyn Elders (b. 1933)

    The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.
    Charles Lamb (1775–1834)

    By contrast with history, evolution is an unconscious process. Another, and perhaps a better way of putting it would be to say that evolution is a natural process, history a human one.... Insofar as we treat man as a part of nature—for instance in a biological survey of evolution—we are precisely not treating him as a historical being. As a historically developing being, he is set over against nature, both as a knower and as a doer.
    Owen Barfield (b. 1898)