Quoting Various Authors and Authorities
"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be
chewed and digested." Bacon
"Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years."
C. S. Lewis
"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings." Salvador Dali
"There is no frigate like a book" Emily Dickinson
Books are keys to wisdom’s treasure;
Books are gates to lands of pleasure.
Books are paths that upward lead,
Books are friends—come, let us read.
—Emilie Poulsson
"I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow."
Woodrow Wilson
"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to
read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read." G. K. Chesterton
"Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind
realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are
written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'" Max Planck
“Trust one eyewitness of a plane crash over the imaginations of a hundred
professors who have agreed how that kind of plane should fly.” J. Whitcomb
“My best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.” A. Lincoln
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without
accepting it.” Aristotle
“Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted
the flame within us.” Albert Schweitzer
“Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are
obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose
themselves in the service of others . . .” Gordon B. Hinckley
“This above all; to thine own self be true.” Shakespeare
“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with
important matters.” Albert Einstein
“The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it
whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very
reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or gravely. For he will
read 'in the same spirit that the author writ.'... He will never commit the
error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison.” C. S. Lewis
copyright 2014 Jonathan David Whitcomb
The nonfiction Searching for Ropens and
Finding God is called the “Bible of modern
pterosaurs.” Slowly professors of biology and
paleontologists are admitting the possibility
that not all pterosaurs are extinct. For natives
in Papua New Guinea, long-tailed featherless
flying creatures have long been well known.
Book Applause
Promoting the nonfiction books of Jonathan David Whitcomb
Dragons or Rhamphorhynchoid pterosaurs
includes the shocking proclamation that pterodactyls
live (at least part of the year) in the USA.
A new word for marriage between a man
and a woman: Adahmeve
Whitcomb’s cryptozoology nonfiction Live
Pterosaurs in America, third edition, says
on the back cover:
The Truth About Pterosaurs
Susan Wooten was driving east on Highway
20, towards Florence, South Carolina, when
something flew just above and in front of her
car. With a long tail but no feathers, “it looked
as big as any car.”
For News Professionals: See Live Pterosaur
Nocturnal Pterosaurs Alive: creatures
of the night that glow as they fly
“The twelve-year-old boy, during his farm
chores, between 9:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m.,
forgot something and had to backtrack.
When he looked at the shed, he saw, on the
roof, just above the door where he had
recently been standing, a large creature
with wings.” (Fourth edition of the nonfiction
book Searching for Ropens and Finding God)