This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
"(a) That life had a supernatural origin, (b) That it originated from inorganic materials, and (c) That life is a constituent of the Universe and can only arise from pre-existing life. The first hypothesis, he said, should be taken seriously, and he would proceed to do so. From the fact that there are 400,000 species of beetle on this planet, but only 8,000 species of mammals, he concluded that the Creator, if he exists, has a special preference for beetles, and so we might be more likely to meet them than any other type of animal on a planet which would support life." - J. B. S. Haldane, fully John Burdon Sanderson Haldane
"A real taste for fairy-stories was wakened by philology on the threshold of manhood, and quickened to full life by war." - J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien