For moral reasons, the young Reverend Peter Sparrow declined to join the Saturday night gatherings of the Erebus Poker Club. Gambling, he knew, was S… - James Morrow

What most people don’t realize is that something unprecedented has entered the world. Bang—science—and suddenly a proposition is true because it’s true, Julie, not because its adherents have the biggest churches or the grandest inquisitors or the most weeks on The New York Times bestseller list.

Oh, Robespierre, Robespierre, was the triumph of inadvertence over intention ever so total?

I'm really interested in this stuff." Julie rubbed a carton labeled ELEMENTARY PARTICLES.
"Physics?"
"Physics, biology, stars, everything." Howard said, "Good for you. These days most people prefer to impoverish their minds with mysticism.