"Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles."

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Source : James D. Watson (1970). “Molecular Biology of the Gene”

James D. Watson

#Religious Quotes #Science Quotes #Atheism Quotes

“There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.”
“If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
“Ninety-eight out of 100 of the rich men in America are honest. That is why they are rich.”
“Truth, that fair goddess who comes always with healing in her wings.”
“I have quitted all forms of devotion and set prayers but those to which my state obliges me. And I make it my business only to persevere in His holy presence, wherein I keep myself by a simple attention, and a general fond regard to GOD, which I may call an actual presence of GOD, or, to speak better, an habitual, silent, and secret conversation of the soul with GOD, which often causes me joys and raptures inwardly, and sometimes also outwardly, so great that I am forced to use means to moderate them, and prevent their appearance to others.”
“The more I make stuff, the more I become aware of when I feel like I'm making bullshit or feel like I'm making something I can stand behind.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“pretty please, with a cherry on top of me!”
“Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.”

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