“14% of men believe that they’ll end up in hell, if it exists, as do 6% of women”. (YouGov poll) If you have the self-knowledge to know that you are destined for Hell, you are almost certainly there already. Of course there is a hell – but it is in your head. It is …
An ancient virus has “come back to life” after lying dormant for at least 30,000 years. It was found frozen in a deep layer of the Siberian permafrost, 30m. under ground level. After it thawed it became infectious again. It attacks amoebas, but appears to pose no danger to humans or animals. But other viruses could …
We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavour to erase them”. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
“If you don’t stick to your values when they’re being tested, they’re not values: they’re hobbies”. Jon Stewart, quoted in the Cape Cod Times
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? George Eliot, quoted in The Times
