#na

The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#been #began #confident #explain #governed

Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#aspire #beings #biologists #birds #broader

If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#available #case #cultural #ideologies #matter

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#carelessness #falsehood #intentionally #lying #more

I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there. ↗

— Randy Johnson

#better idea #confidence #determination #doing #got

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#enjoyment #equality #greatly #happiness #human

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#away #before #breaking #felicity #flights

It might have been easier to retire, to say my knee couldn't handle it and let that be that. At the same time, the prospect of not being able to compete in gymnastics anymore was heartbreaking. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#anymore #been #being #compete #easier

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#hope #human #human mind #mind #natural

I liked the name of the amendment. I couldn't help feeling uneasy that the church was opposing something with a name as beautiful as the Equal Rights Amendment. ↗

— Sonia Johnson

#beautiful #church #equal #equal rights #feeling