"Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn."

-- Michael Novak

#Christian Quotes #Hopeful Quotes #Judaism Quotes

“That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.”
“God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracleâ€”or instruction.”
“Man has slapped nature in the face. If you slap it, it will slap you back.”
“As I watched him on the stage, my hands were clinched in fists of rage. No angel born in hell, could break that Satan's spell.”
“It sounds bad, but they don't care about your age if you're famous.”
“It is not enough to ask, 'Will my act harm other people?' Even if the answer is No, my act may still be wrong, because of its effects on other people. I should ask, 'Will my act be one of a set of acts that will together harm other people?' The answer may be Yes. And the harm to others may be great. If this is so, I may be acting very wrongly, like the Harmless Torturers.”
“When the animals entered the Ark in pairs, one may imagine that allied species made much private remark on each other, and were tempted to think that so many forms feeding on the same store of fodder were eminently superfluous, as tending to diminish the rations.”
“I don't know all the reasons for these achievements, but I know that I love what I do and I have never wanted to rest on my laurels.”

Source : Ahmed H. Zewail (2002). “Voyage Through Time: Walks of Life to the Nobel Prize”, p.72, World Scientific

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