Carl Woese famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Yes, I do not like people saying that atheism is based on science, because it's not. It's an alien invasion of science.
-- Carl Woese

#People #Atheism #Invasion
Our task now is to resynthesize biology; put the organism back into its environment; connect it again to its evolutionary past; and let us feel that complex flow that is organism, evolution, and environment united. The time has come for biology to enter the nonlinear world.
-- Carl Woese

#Past #Tasks #World
The incredible diversity oflife on this planet, most of which is microbial, can only beunderstood in an evolutionary framework
-- Carl Woese

#Diversity #Incredibles #Framework

Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.
I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
Theism is so confused and the sentences in which "God" appears so incoherent and so incapable of verifiability or falsifiability that to speak of belief or unbelief, faith or unfaith, is logically impossible.
A heathen philosopher once asked a Christian, 'Where is God'? The Christian answered, 'Let me first ask you, Where is He not?'
I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator.
I am personally convinced of the great power and deep significance of Christianity, and I won't allow any other religion to be promoted.
Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low.
I think you have always heard, and you continue to hear from officials, a measure of high confidence that, indeed, the weapons of mass destruction will be found.
The planet Mars -- crimson and bright, filling our telescopes with vague intimations of almost-familiar landforms -- has long formed a celestial tabula rasa on which we have inscribed our planeto-logical theories, utopian fantasies, and fears of alien invasion or ecological ruin.
When government gets between my lips and my stomach; I call that invasion of privacy!

Carl Woese famous quotes

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