Arno Allan Penzias famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I think we've tied acquiring knowledge too much to school
-- Arno Allan Penzias

#School #Thinking #Too Much
If you don't want to be replaced by a computer, don't act like one.
-- Arno Allan Penzias

#Technology #Want #Computer
If there are a bunch of fruit trees, one can say that whoever created these fruit trees wanted some apples. In other words, by looking at the order in the world, we can infer purpose and from purpose we begin to get some knowledge of the Creator, the Planner of all this. This is, then, how I look at God. I look at God through the works of God's hands and from those works imply intentions. From these intentions, I receive an impression of the Almighty.
-- Arno Allan Penzias

#Order #Apples #Hands
Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, and delicately balanced to provide exactly the conditions required to support life. In the absence of an absurdly improbable accident, the observations of modern science seem to suggest an underlying, one might say, supernatural plan.
-- Arno Allan Penzias

#Unique #Support #Atheism
What you really have to do, if you want to be creative, is to unlearn all the teasing and censoring that you've experienced throughout your life. If you are truly a creative person, you know that feeling insecure and lonely is par for the course. You can't have it both ways: You can't be creative and conform, too. You have to recognize that what makes you different also makes you creative.
-- Arno Allan Penzias

#Lonely #Encouragement #Insecure
I feel that I learned far more from my students than I could possibly have taught them.
-- Arno Allan Penzias

#Taught #Students #Feels
Change is rarely comfortable.
-- Arno Allan Penzias
While change is rarely comfortable, I am happy to say that we not only survived but also grew more capable in the process - seeding much of the information revolution which now pervades the world in which we live.
-- Arno Allan Penzias

#Comfortable

From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.
The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.
Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.
You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.
There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.
Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
I've seen too much in life to give up.
If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.

Arno Allan Penzias famous quotes

You may also like: