Margherita Hack famous quotes

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Us atheist people, we believe we have to act properly and honestly for a moral principle and not because we expect an award in Paradise.
-- Margherita Hack

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We (atheists) act in good conscience because we believe in moral principles, not because we expect a reward in Heaven.
-- Margherita Hack

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Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any ... people of any religious faith in this country.
I affirm my faith when I'm asked about it. But I always try to do so in a way that communicates absolute respect, not only for people who worship in a different way, but just as much respect for those who do not believe in God and who are atheists.
Christians have given atheists less and less in which to disbelieve
A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.
Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.
I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
Americans are always mortified when I tell them this, but in England, it's a tradition to put your plaques and photographs and awards and gold records and stuff in your bathroom. I don't know why.
I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
I always had a larger view. I'm interested in real life - my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards.
Being snubbed is not always a bad thing at awards shows because you end up getting a lot of people coming up to you and telling you how great you are.

Margherita Hack famous quotes

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