Christian B. Anfinsen famous quotes

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I think only an idiot can be an atheist. We must admit that there exists an incomprehensible power or force with limitless foresight and knowledge that started the whole universe going in the first place.
-- Christian B. Anfinsen

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Many prominent scientists - including Darwin, Einstein, and Planck - have considered the concept of God very seriously. What are your thoughts on the concept of God and on the existence of God?
-- Christian B. Anfinsen

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It struck me recently, that one should really consider the sequence of a protein molecule about to fold into a precise geometric form as a line of melody written in a canon form & so designed by Nature to fold back into itself, creating harmonic chords of interaction consistent with biological function
-- Christian B. Anfinsen

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I think only an idiot can be an atheist.
-- Christian B. Anfinsen

#Atheist #Thinking #Idiot

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.
We are all given a gift of existence and of being sentient beings, and I think true happiness lies in love and compassion.
The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isnâ€™t wishful thinking. Itâ€™s the rule.
A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
This sense of wonder leads most scientists to a Superior Being - der Alte, the Old One, as Einstein affectionately called the Deity - a Superior Intelligence, the Lord of all Creation and Natural Law.
If there is no military need for the building, leave it alone, neither putting anyone in or out of it, except on finding some one preaching or practicing treason, in which case lay hands on him, just as if he were doing the same thing in any other building.
I have neither time nor disposition to enter into discussion with the Friend, and end this occasion by suggesting for her consideration the question whether, if it be true that the Lord has appointed me to do the work she has indicated, it is not probable that he would have communicated knowledge of the fact to me as well as to her.
I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so.
This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief.

Christian B. Anfinsen famous quotes

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