Orts #751

. . . by comparing the vibrational frequency of a chemical bond of methane located in a distant galaxy, with that of methane here on Earth, we now know that in the past seven billion years, the proton to electron mass ratio has remained unchanged to within at least one part in ten billion. 

     — Josef Eisinger, in a blog post,   http://erickoch.ca/2015/11/27/one-hundred-years-of-relativity/

All those people should be ashamed of themselves, who have no more intellectual appreciation of science, than the cow has of the botany of the grass it blissfully eats.

     — Albert Einstein, quoted in the same blog post

[Your book is] written in a language which is inaccessible to me. . . . The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weakness, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still purely primitive, legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can change this for me. 

     — Albert Einstein, in a letter to Eric Gutkind, 1954, about Gutkind’s book, Choose Life: The Biblical Call to Revolt