“Having seen how many follow and have followed false religions, and having our reason utterly against many of the principal points of the Bible, we require the most perfect evidence of facts, before we...”

Edward FitzGerald (poet)

“Science unrolls a greater epic than the Iliad. The present day teems with new discoveries in Fact, which are greater, as regards the soul and prospect of men, than all the disquisitions and quiddities...”

Edward FitzGerald (poet)

“Leave well — even 'pretty well' — alone: that is what I learn as I get old.”

Edward FitzGerald (poet)