"Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah." ― Thomas Huxley Topic(s): Wisdom Tags: prophets, reckons, science More From Thomas Huxley "Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing." "Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact." "My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don’t get right." More In Wisdom "Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness."― Cyril Connolly "We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation."― William O. Douglas "Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain."― Ray Kurzweil