Essays and Quotations

Essays by the Author:

2011 March, The Meaning of Life, Libertas Magazine

2009 December, Politics and Science, The Edge Effect

2008 September,NCTTA Member Team of the Month: The Lindenwood University Story , National Collegiate Table Tennis Association September Newsletter

2008 July,NCTTA Member of the Month: The Willy Leparulo Story, National Collegiate Table Tennis Association July Newsletter

2008 June,NCTTA Member of the Month: The Francois Charvet Story ,National Collegiate Table Tennis Assocation June Newsletter

Quotations:

We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depths of our answers.

-Carl Sagan

The unexamined life is not worth living.

-Socrates

Most people would rather die than think, and most people do, and one doesn’t want to be one of them.

-Bertrand Russel

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

-Richard Dawkins

Thus from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows.  There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.

-Charles Darwin

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

-Theodore Parker

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.

-Stephen Jay Gould