"I'm an agnostic. Sometimes I muse deeply on the forces that are for me invisible. When I am almost close to the idea of God, I feel immediately estranged by the horrors of this world, which he seems to tolerate..."

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Source : "The Melting - Pot Revisited: Twenty Well - Known Americans of Polish Background". Book by Olgierd Budrewicz, 1977.

Stanislaw Ulam

#Ideas Quotes #World Quotes #Agnostic Quotes

“There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.”
“Give yourself room to make mistakes because you're human. We've got to make mistakes, and allow ourselves to make those mistakes.”
“I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.”
“We painted a beautiful picture, but we just didn't finish it. Finishing is the difference between a beautiful picture and a masterpiece.”
“I do not expect that the mere fact that I was once an evangelical apologist and now see things differently should itself count as evidence that I must be right. That would be the genetic fallacy. It would be just as erroneous to think that John Rankin must be right in having embraced evangelical Christianity since he had once been an agnostic Unitarian and repudiated it for the Christian faith.”

Source : Opening Statement on Mars Hill Forum at Unitarian Church, Monclair, New Jersey, www.mars-hill-forum.com. January 11, 1997.
“In Flanders fields the poppies blow,”
“In a lot of ways, the way you're making your bread and butter is off people who aren't necessarily who you're writing for.”
“If I had to, I would ask first of all: why do things move in your work? Itâ€™s the most simple, and also the most complicated, question. And I answer: things move because if they didnâ€™t move, they might moveâ€‰â€¦”

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