Gerald Schroeder famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Knowing the plumbing of the universe, intricate and awe-inspiring though that plumbing might be, is a far cry from discovering its purpose.
-- Gerald Schroeder

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One should not be happy or distressed over desirables and undesirables, knowing that such feelings are just created by the mind.
Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful.
The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.
For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame.
I was already headed for Hell, I might as well enjoy the ride.
Many persons who are not conversant with mathematical studies imagine that because the business of [Babbageâ€™s Analytical Engine] is to give its results in numerical notation, the nature of its processes must consequently be arithmetical and numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine its numerical quantities exactly as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and in fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly.
But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required.
I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.
I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life.
Having a purpose is the little secret of the nonpretties. Something to do always beats something to look at.

Gerald Schroeder famous quotes

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